Ektishaf Ahwaz

Integration Engineer

PlayTradeX • Tiempo completo

Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 • 1 yr 3 mos

- Engineered and maintained custom plugins for both Unity and Unreal Engine, enabling seamless integration of PlayTradeX’s blockchain marketplace into third-party games and internal titles. - Architected blockchain connectivity within the PlayTradeX platform, ensuring secure, scalable, and real-time interaction between games and decentralized networks. - Designed and implemented systems for buying and selling NFTs, empowering players to own, trade, and monetize in-game assets with complete transparency. - Developed the Play-to-Earn logic that rewards players based on gameplay performance and asset utilization, driving player engagement and sustainable token economies. - Integrated secure, user-friendly in-game wallets for storing and managing tokens and NFTs, removing friction from blockchain interaction. - Built back-end and front-end systems to support instant, low-latency transactions, ensuring a smooth and immersive player experience without disrupting gameplay.

Senior Unreal Engine Developer

Shiba Inu Inc • Tiempo completo

Mar 2024 - Aug 2024 • 5 mos

- Designed and implemented robust ERC-20 and ERC-1155 smart contracts for multi-token standards, ensuring compliance with Ethereum's best practices and security measures. - Optimized smart contract logic to minimize gas costs during minting, burning, and transferring operations, enhancing efficiency for end-users. - Successfully integrated blockchain functionalities into Unreal Engine projects, enabling real-time interaction with smart contracts directly within the game environment. - Built Unreal plugins for blockchain communication, allowing developers to fetch token balances, perform transfers, and interact with NFT marketplaces. - Developed secure user authentication mechanisms using cryptographic wallets like MetaMask for Unreal Engine and Unity game clients. - Ensured smooth interoperability of blockchain features across multiple platforms, including PC, mobile, and WebGL. - Automated the management of token metadata using IPFS and custom URI resolution logic for efficient storage and retrieval - Conducted comprehensive testing of smart contracts, backend APIs, and game integrations, deploying solutions seamlessly to Ethereum and Shibarium mainnet and testnets for production and development environments. - Developed scalable backend APIs to interact with blockchain smart contracts, enabling seamless integration with gaming platforms and external systems. - Designed and deployed staking functionalities within the smart contract ecosystem, enabling users to lock tokens in exchange for rewards, fostering community engagement and enhancing token utility.

Integration Engineer

mod.io • Tiempo completo

Jan 2023 - Feb 2024 • 1 yr 1 mo

- Designed and implemented a Common UI abstraction layer in Unreal Engine using C++ and Blueprint, delivering fully-fledged sample UI systems for studios to streamline their development processes. - Created an Unreal Editor module to manage and upload user-generated content (UGC) directly from the editor, enhancing the content pipeline for developers and creators. - Developed cross-platform build pipelines using CMake to support PS4, PS5, Xbox, Linux, and Nintendo Switch in Unreal Engine, ensuring consistent performance and compatibility across diverse gaming platforms. - Developed custom widgets and panels in Unreal Editor to provide intuitive interfaces for developers interacting with complex project assets and UGC management tools. - Improved character system input response in Unreal Engine using C++, reducing input lag and enhancing gameplay experiences for end-users. - Extended Blueprint functionality to integrate seamlessly with C++ modules, enabling developers to bridge high-level scripting with low-level engine. - Developed custom tools and modules in the Unreal Editor to streamline the content creation pipeline, including workflows for debugging and testing. - Developed complex AI decision-making logic using Behaviour Trees, integrating custom tasks, decorators, and services to create dynamic NPC behavior patterns. - Designed Environment Query System (EQS) queries to optimize AI positioning for combat scenarios, resource gathering, and tactical gameplay elements. - Implemented and optimized Navigation System with dynamic NavMesh updates, ensuring seamless AI path-finding in large, dynamic environments with real-time obstacle avoidance.