Hi I am Paul An 
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I’m a game designer for NetherRealm Studios- currently working on Mortal Kombat: Onslaught. I’ve previously worked as a software engineer at Meta, Boeing, and other startups. In my free time I like to work on creating my own games, learn martial arts, other languages, and many more. Thanks for coming to my portfolio page!
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Designed and implemented characters and character abilities using UE5 Blueprints. Maintained and updated design docs, wiki pages for items and characters. Worked with engineers, animators, artists, & producers to create a AAA Mortal Kombat mobile experience.
Managed a team of 3 engineers to create 2 prototype games and a fully released game in Unity. Learned and implemented skills such as sound design, lighting, art direction, animation rigging, etc. Built a turn based action-RPG game and a multiplayer PvP game from the ground up. Currently designing and prototyping a turn-based mobile RPG game to release in Q3-2023.
Working as a (PHP) backend engineer interfacing with Oculus Quest 2 payments processing portal. Participating in oncall rotations to maintain, debug and address failures in any part of the shop fulfillment process.
3 month contract working with Unreal Engine 4 for TMU's unannounced original IP game. TMU has released ports of popular games such as Borderlands, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, Journey to the Savage Planet, and more. Worked on navigation & pathfinding systems for Player/NPC interactions as well as AI controllers in blueprints. Project Management via ClickUp and SVN for version control.
Core engineer on TrueAccord’s scalability & product operations teams. Refactored legacy Jenkins CI/CD indexing jobs to use elasticsearch to decrease build times by over 1000%. Developed and maintained software in Scala & Python to automate helpdesk services in Twilio and Zendesk.
Engineered the core functionality for TCP/IP & UDP connections in Python/C++, enabling the US Navy to send, process, and compress .wav audio data using Python/XML for detecting enemies in anti-submarine warfare. Built and refactored unit tests in Python and proprietary automated testing scripts, in one case increasing the efficiency of a production build by reducing its overall file size by 54%.