Nathan Schuetz

About Me

Full Stack Software Developer, Game Developer, and Engineer in Training.

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Barbarian Grunge

C++, Unreal Engine. Website is a custom nodejs hobby crm

Trailer available on website.

Indie 3rd person adventure. Includes combo system, ability system, input buffering, reactive music, multiple enemy and weapon types, elaborate AI, positional combat, and more

C++, Unreal Engine. Website is a custom nodejs hobby cms

A Few Nights Room and Board

C++, Blender, Audacity, UE4

Tested a character controller and a custom ability system during a halloween Game jam, then used to refine 'game feel.' Included voice acting, 2 levels, and 3 enemy types.

C++, Blender, Audacity, UE4

Homestead Saga

C#, Unity3D

Prototyped a village management game during an 11 day game jam.

Unity3D, C#

Other Projects


Messy Community Badgers

C#, Unity3D, Behavior Trees, Behavior Designer, Node Canvas

Collaborative game jam to learn behavior trees as a group while making a village management game. Featured pack behavior. Might release one day under Apache license.

Unity3D, C#

Dynamic Navmesh Study

C#, Unity3D

Testing dynamic navmesh and building placement. Done in parallel with the Homestead Saga game jam

Unity3D, C#

Pathfinding Study

C#, Unity3D

A short study on navmesh systems in 3D engines to compare vs simpler grid-based graph search.

Unity3D, C#

ShaderGraph Study

C#, Unity3D

A short study on unity3D node-based shaders.

Unity3D, C#, ShaderGraph

Legacy of Lea

Javascript, HTML, CSS, S3

A fully-custom promotional website for an Indy game being made by a small team in Edmonton. The game seems to be on hiatus, so the website is currently offline.

Javascript, HTML, CSS, S3

YCombinator's Startup School

Preparation for applying to YC one day

Moderator for 8 active companies for the first half of the 8-month program by leading office hours and arranging other discussions.

Twitter Impersonator

Used a LSTM model and a close friend's Twitter data to create a text-generation model that might impersonate him. Mixed but promising results!

Used a LSTM model and a close friend's Twitter data to create a text-generation model that might impersonate him. Mixed but promising results!

Python, Beautiful Soup, Numpy, Pandas, Keras

University Projects


Project Caddie

Javascript, NodeJS, ThreeJS, HTML, CSS, Vagrant, Linux, Bash, SystemD, Nginx, MongoDB, AWS

8-month engineering & entrepreneurship capstone project. Created a WebGL-driven sales interface for selecting wellhead components before orders.

Nearly sold it the following summer!

2-Person group.

Javascript, NodeJS, ThreeJS, HTML, CSS, Vagrant, Linux, Bash, SystemD, Nginx, MongoDB, AWS

Posture Tracking Wearable

Javascript, NodeJS, ChartJS, HTML, CSS, Linux, Bash, Nginx, MongoDB, AWS

Full stack web application. Allows owners of a posture-monitoring device to view their posture metrics.

Javascript, NodeJS, ChartJS, HTML, CSS, Linux, Bash, Nginx, MongoDB, AWS

Driver Programming

C, MPLAB, Assembly, Tera Term, uTTCOSg, Blackfin, PIC24F

Wrote drivers for embedded devices. Included CVREF, ADC, Comparators, CTMU, Capacitance touch sensors and some applied work with IR LEDs and remote controls.

2-Person group.

C, MPLAB, Assembly, Tera Term, uTTCOSg, Blackfin, PIC24F

Ray Tracer

C++, OpenGL, GLSL

Wrote an object-oriented CPU ray-tracer. Also created several other scenes using other techniques and technologies, including OpenGL, filters, and bezier curves.

C++, OpenGL, GLSL

Scrum Master

WPF, C#, Silverlight

Scrum master and developer for a project course. Maintained task boards, reports, ran meetings, and removed obstacles. Heavy focus on minimizing process.

6-Person team.

WPF, C#, Silverlight

Space Shooter

C#, Unity3D

In a galaxy beset by strife, the commute to work just got real...

Based on a tutorial, my first game project.

C#, Unity3D

Work Experience


Arterys

Summer 2017 - Summer 2018

Javascript, NodeJS, AngularJS, ChartJS, HTML, CSS, LESS, Git, Linux, Bash, Jenkins, Chef, Packer, Nginx, Web Sockets, MongoDB, Redis, AWS

12 month full-stack development internship on the Cardiac team of a cloud-based medical imaging company. Almost unlimited mentoring. Led two small teams during projects and hosted weekly onramping meetings for new hires

Earned Intern of Merit Award

Javascript, NodeJS, AngularJS, ChartJS, HTML, CSS, LESS, Git, Linux, Bash, Jenkins, Chef, Packer, Nginx, Web Sockets, MongoDB, Redis, AWS