Eddie Edwards: Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Owner/proprietor and senior consultant for Reanimator Ltd.. Previous clients include:

• GIANTS Software
  • PS3, PS4 and X360 ports for GIANTS Engine
  • GPU, CPU, memory & threading optimizations for GIANTS Engine across all platforms
  • TRC support for Farming Simulator 13 and 15
  • Created universal shader transcoding system (GiSL -> Cg,HLSL,GLSL,PSSL)
  • Over two million shipped SKUs
• Wizarbox
  • PS3 port & optimizations for "Shine Engine"
  • TRC support for Realms of Ancient War
• Geomerics
  • Ported "GeoDemo" radiosity demo to PS3 including DirectX 9 emulation and SPU coding
  • Worked on "GeoPipeline" middleware toolchain
  • Assisted with Unreal Engine 3 integration
  • Reanimator-supplied properties include kd-tree raycaster, generic software rasterizer
• LucasArts
  • Frame-rate improvements on PS3 version of "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed"
  • Immediate 2x improvement by switch to libGCM
  • Multiple rendering optimizations
  • Moved entire full-screen effects pipeline to SPU (one SPU @ 30Hz)
  • Overall approx. 8FPS -> approx. 25FPS improvement over three months
• nVidia / AGEIA
  • PhysX speed improvements on PS3
  • Redesigned + implemented solid body solver for parallel SPUs
  • Redesigned + implemented broadphase algorithm for parallel SPUs
  • Benchmark test speeds around 2x faster
  • Perfect QA pass on new code
• Skyler Technologies
• Howler Technologies
  • G.729 implementation on SPU - more than 200 times faster than the reference code.
  • Linux and Windows driver for SpursEngine allowing simultaneous throughput of over 1,500 audio channels

Previous Positions

Principle programmer (PS3) for Advanced Technology Group with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Ltd.:

• ATG tasked to provide PS3 library code to 1st- and 2nd-party developers
• Ported nVidia's Cg compiler to produce SPU SIMD code
• Designed and developed a new language, Ng, for producing complex SPU SIMD code
• 3D Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics implementation on SPU ("exploding gas station" demo)

Senior programmer (PS2) for Naughty Dog, Inc.:

• Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
• VU coding (particle system, shrub engine, sky)
• EE coding (particle system, behaviours, LISP engine)
• IOP coding ("no load time" system + drivers, audio)

Relevant Experience

Credits

• Farming Simulator 15 (GIANTS)
• Farming Simulator 13 (GIANTS)
• Realm of Ancient War (Wizarbox)
• Star Wars: The Force Unleased (LucasArts)
• Jak & Daxter: The Precusor Legacy (Naughty Dog, Inc)
• Urban Chaos (Mucky Foot Ltd)
• DOOM (Powerslave Software)
• Supermatch Soccer (Cranberry Source Ltd)
• QAD (Cranberry Source Ltd)
• Wolfenstein 3D (Powerslave Software)

Areas of Expertise

• x64/GCN/PS4
• DX11/DX10/DX9
• Parallel programming
• General 2D and 3D graphics programming
• Mathematics: geometry, physics, etc.
• Assembler coding and optimisation
• Low-level issues (caches, DMA, interrupts, etc.)
• Sound synthesis and signal processing theory
• General technical/mathematical problem solving

Languages

• C and C++
• x86, x64, ARM, PPC, SPU, MIPS assembler
• LISP, Scheme, etc.
• Varied experience with other languages and architectures (e.g. Python, Lua, C#, Cg/HLSL/PSSL/GLSL, etc.)
• 32 years programming in total

Environments / Operating Systems

• PS4
• DirectX / WIN32
• OpenGLES / iOS
• Various others not current

Full Employment History

Education

• M.A. Maths (Hons), Christ's College, Cambridge, 1996
• B.A. Maths (Hons), Christ's College, Cambridge, 1993

Other interests

• Raising a family
• Writing
• Music (vocalist)
• Electronics
• Science, Technology & Mathematics

References

• Available on request

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