Welcome

I'm Oscar Burga

Game Developer & Software Engineer

Oscar Burga

Game Developer & Software Engineer

I consider myself to be a fun, laid-back, yet disciplined person who's passionate about technology and computer science. Algorithms, problem-solving and optimizations are the core components that keep me enjoying my profession.

So far, I've mostly grown as a systems and network developer during my game development career, and I'm currently looking forward to learn more about console-specific development.

From: Lima, Peru.
Topics of Interest: Systems development, game engines, networking, concurrency, computer graphics, optimizations, Linux, computer architecture, low-level programming.

My Skills

These skills shouldn't be measured numerically. This is just a reference for my level of comfort.

Programming Languages

C++ (7 years experience)

95%

Python (5 years experience)

85%

Go (1 year experience)

60%

Game Engines

Unreal Engine (3 years experience)

88%

Unity (1 year experience)

40%

Technical Skills

Algorithms and Data Structures

93%

Object-Oriented Programming and related patterns

92%

Concurrency Patterns

75%

Networking / Online

70%

Computer Graphics (OpenGL)

55%

Hopefully more graphics stuff will make it into the list soon. Starting a related personal project soon :)

There is always room for improvement.

Education

2018 - 2022
Bachelor in Computer Science
Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC)
Graduated as first-of-the-class. Formed part of the competitive programming team during most of my time studying.
- Check out my graduation post
2021-2022
Certifications from Virtual Courses

During my last 2 years of university, I also took several virtual courses on the Coursera platform as part of my Computer Science program.

Work Experience

2023 - Current

Semi-Senior Adv. Game Programmer
Globant
Currently working on an amazing project that I cannot publicly disclose yet. I am very proud of working on this and hope I'll be able to add more details soon.
2021 - 2023
Senior Game Programmer (Unreal Engine 4)
Bamtang Games
I've collaborated on four different multiplatform projects and have solidified myself mostly as a systems and network developer.
- Systems and gameplay programmer for the game Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance.
- Network programmer for the game DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racers.
- Contributed to the development of the online system used across multiple projects, including Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3.
- Developed editor tools and scripts for the team's artists in Unreal Engine 4.
2020 - 2021
Algorithmic Complexity Tutor
Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC)
Prepared and taught complementary lessons on algorithms and data structures for groups of up to 30 students of the Algorithmic Complexity course. Materials and resources can be found below:
- Class repository 2021-01
- Class repository 2020-02