Qualicum Software Performance Inc.

I'm Sean Payne, an Embedded Systems Engineer.

I've always been interested in the low-level optimization of computers to better understand how they work and to better serve people.

I graduated from British Columbia Institute of Technology first with a diploma in Microcomputers and later a B.Tech in Data Communications. The first was low-level assembly and OS interfaces, while the Data Communications degree added more latency and bandwidth analysis to my skill set. To help with game AI, I studied linear algebra and robot motion planning at Simon Fraser University.

I started as a Unix systems developer in the infrastructure team for Prism Systems Inc. (Later Nortel). This was HP-UX programming for a large network management system. After becoming a Senior Software Engineer, I decided to switch to the video game industry because I felt they were pushing Computer Science harder than Nortel was.

I worked as a consultant for a startup called Starvision Multimedia where I wrote a TINA-C Connection Session Manager in C++ and some Trimedia VLIW Assembler to do some VGA scaling. I also spent some time at Relic Entertainment as a Network Programmer on a real-time strategy game called Impossible Creatures.

I then settled in for a while at Electronic Arts where I was the Network Programmer for 3 baseball titles (MVP Baseball), AI Programmer for one racing title (Need For Speed) and a platform engineer where I ported all the non-graphics parts of Frostbite engine to a new platform.

Recently I've completed VR consulting for CTRL-Labs (now Facebook Reality Labs) where I wrote a SteamVR driver for their EMG-based interface and participated in the OpenXR spec. I've also completed Performance Engineering contract work for Nintendo NTD and Kernel, File Systems and VR support for Sony Interactive Entertainment.

• SOC research: Hardware and OS Benchmarking. Latency and Bandwith
• Custom drivers for Linux, Android, LynxOS and Custom OS.
• Custom device drivers development. e.g.:
• SteamVR Custom Controllers
• Dynamic Voltage and Scaling Drivers
• TINA-C Connectivity Session Manager for Starvision Multimedia (now Radisys)
• SIP to Media Gateway Control Protocol Adapter for Convedia (now Radisys)
• QVGA Scaling Firmware for Starvision Multimedia (now Radisys)
• Application Layer: Engine Systems, Multiplayer and Unreal Engine