Elijah O'Rear

I'm a software engineer living in Huntsville, Alabama but willing to relocate. I’ve worked as a programmer in video game development with a secondary focus on design work. Most of my work has fallen under gameplay programming and UI programming. I’ve worked independently, on PC/Console titles, VR titles, as a contractor, and on smartphone platforms. While my career has been as a programmer, I've had a strong interest in art and design, and tend to work across those disciplinary boundaries and have also done design work at many of my jobs. I think a lot about how people interact with software, and how to write software for the humans that use it.

I’ve been curious to branch outside of game development and start a new career. I have a strong interest in engineering and biomedicine. Scientific programming, simulation work, navigation and space exploration/industry in particular have me very interested. I hope to apply the skills I’ve acquired in my game development career to the more tangible problem space of the real world.