Sajjad Rad

Game Developer, Filmmaker, VFX Artist

About me

I worked in Art industries like Game Developing, Filmmaking, VFX and Photography for years, as a job or just for fun. Among all these, game development has always helped me to tell my story in the best way possible, so in 2018 I started again to develop games.

Contact Info

Skills

Backend Development,
Team Work,
Photography,
Problem Solving,
VFX,
2D Animation,
Game Level Design

Software Skills

After Effects,
Photoshop,
Laravel,
MySQL,
Docker,
GRPC,
MongoDB,
CI CD,
Source Film Maker

Language Skills

Persian,
English

Work Experience

MANA SKY

December 2015 Until now

Co-founder, Software Engineer

● Provide web/mobile app development solutions
● Designed and developed a website for Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran
Twist

September 2019 to September 2021

Software Engineer

● Involved in the design & implementation of microservices & APIs for an online Game service API platform using Golang, Kafka as broker, Redis as cache, gRPC, docker, MySQL & protobuf.
● Involved in design, documentation & development of 6 microservices using Golang:
- AuthN & AuthZ users using JWT token
- Deliver messages on driver-supported channels (like email & notification) to the end-user
- Manage & schedule game tournaments
- Query users scores as the leaderboard
- Manage game & users achievements
- Manage users' inventory & store items, handle purchase pipeline (except payment process), & invoice system.
● Developed the Golang & PHP SDKs to use in the games to interact with the platform API.
● Developed the front-store app using Laravel
● Implemented the end-user event channel (like balance update) using Websocket.
● Implemented the Admin Panel for the whole services using Laravel.
● Worked on an app to manage all microservices in the admin using k8s APIs(not implemented)
Mark It As Done

January 2017 to February 2019

Remote Web Developer

Developed an application using Laravel, MySQL, Redis as queue & deployed on AWS for a private company to:
● Send digital content of sold products on the store (like digital music albums of physical version) using Shopify API via email
● Manage & deliver digital products sold on Shopify or local stores via email (like game CD-KEYs)
● Manage digital contents download (hosted on AWS with restrictions & expiration)
● Manage & track inventory products from different stores supporting "inventory checking" process (online Shopify stores & local stores)
● Export Sales & marketing reports to online charts, CSV, PDF & excel files (aggregation from all stores)
NIG Studio

June 2015 to December 2015

Technical Team Lead

I was responsible for:
● Managing the technical team
● Designing & engineering software for the clients
NIG Studio

June 2012 to June 2015

Web Developer, Game Developer

● Worked on an FPS 3D game (Jungle Warrior):
- Level Designing all 5 levels of the game using Unreal Engine
- Directed & edited the cutscene videos & the game trailers
- Designed & developed the game main menu using Adobe Flash & Actionscript
- Sound programming using C#

● Worked on the core of an online strategic game using PHP
● Designed & developed the company website template using WordPress, HTML & CSS
● Developed a web mini-game for the company home page
● Developed a mobile application for the game media industry to review Android games