Ioannis Kiaras

• Founded and manage Rock Like Studios, an independent game development company dedicated to creating innovative gaming experiences.
• Lead the design and development of two game projects:

• An online board game developed in Unity, where I executed the game design from concept to implementation, ensuring engaging gameplay and a user-friendly experience.

• A Rogue-Like game utilizing Unreal Engine and C++, where I played a pivotal role in:Designing the game mechanics and overall gameplay experience.
• Writing the storyline to create an immersive narrative. Creating animations for character attacks to enhance gameplay fluidity.
• Developing enemy AI using behavioral trees to improve challenge and engagement.
• Managing a team of artists to design and create weapon assets.
• Designing the game levels, ensuring balanced play and exploration opportunities.
• Collaborate with a talented team to bring creative visions to life while adhering to project timelines and budget constraints.
• Continuously research industry trends and player feedback to iterate and enhance game features, ensuring high-quality releases.

• Part-time on an educational game in Unreal Engine aimed at training kids in subjects like math

• Focus on gameplay development and addressing any general needs within the project to enhance learning outcomes through interactive experiences.
  
• Collaborate with a talented team to bring creative visions to life while adhering to project timelines and budget constraints.
• Continuously research industry trends and player feedback to iterate and enhance game features, ensuring high-quality releases.

• Developed a VR game with Unreal Engine 5 working with C++ and Blueprints.
• Took charge of the development of the communication to the backend, developing the Multiplayer features.
• Managed and trained teams of 2 to 3 developers, on how to tackle and implement multiple complicated tasks.
• Compiled detailed documentation that works both as a guide and as a training manual on how to implement communication over the network.
• Tested the game and the database to identify issues and make necessary modifications.
• Collaborated on stages of system development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production release.
• Balanced and adjusted gameplay experiences to increase critical and commercial success of product.

• Designed and developed various features in the Rokoko Studio 2 core, using C#
• Developed features in the Rokoko Studio 2 front end, using Unity.
• Worked in the Animation Tools department, creating parts of an animation engine.
• Worked in the Cloud department, which is responsible for the persistence and live sync of the projects.

• Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products.
• Analysed designed and implemented Android app for Vodacom.
• Collaborated with product management to design, build and test systems.

• Analysed designed and implemented the Smart Insight platform.
• Smart Insight is part of the Travel Appeal app which offers personalised suggestions and insights about hotels, restaurants or destinations.
• Participated as a speaker in an international Machine Learning Conference of FairPeople, about AI in business.
• Technologies used: Java, Hibernate, Spring, AWS

Personal Project, Site and nonprofit group to help handicapped people.

• Created several apps, including Whispers: Parallel World, BridgeCom and Scread.
• Whispers: Parallel World an android RPG game for people with visual impairment using Natural Language Interaction.
• BridgeCom an app for people with hear impairment, to communicate with out the sign language. It uses Voice To Text and Text To Voice.
• Scread an app for visual impairment, it uses Image and Text recognition to understand text written in any surface through the mobile’s camera.

• Joined a team of three to maintain and further develop platform for massive SMS campaigns.
• Made a mobile friendly GUI site of the platform with angularJS.
• I created an android app to replace SMS in campaigns.
• Technologies Used: Java 8, Spring 4, JPA 2 (Hibernate 3)

• Developed the backend of a reward platform, using the Vert.x, Spring and Hibernate.
• Used ActiveMQ to send SMS and e-mails to the users.
• Created and tested a very robust system that could be used by millions of users daily.

Root Development Team of the Physics Group ALICE Experiment (PH-AIP-SDS)

• Engineered a robust algorithm after studying the HOUGH transform theory.
• Developed a tract reconstruction software in C++, Root and CUDA;
• Implemented a cellular automata in order to cluster the peaks of the histogram.
• Compiled the report of the project