Mihail Balescu

Software engineer for an international company in data mining and process control for industrial applications. Developing, updating, fixing and maintaining COM/DCOM components to fit new industrial requirements, working on developing new modules to integrate with the existing system, working on updating the codebase to newer C++ compilers, creating tools for automating software analysis and detecting code flaws, creating test-harnesses for white-box testing showcasing potential bugs.

Software engineer for an unreleased project using Adobe Flex for front end and C# for server-side part and tools, like graphical pipeline, collision areas editor, map editor etc.

Video games programmer in the Tools & Tech team for Carmageddon: Reincarnation. Implemented a procedurally generated clutter system for Carmageddon environments with C++ and hot edited Lua scripts. Also worked in an audio programmer role, for the Stainless sound engine, using FMOD library (C++ in the engine and Lua app side). Worked on various other tools controlling several game subsystems (C++, lua, C#, XAML). Tools: Visual Studio 2012, TeamCity, Svn, Jira.

Software engineer developing several games including a 3D jigsaw puzzle and a Pacman style game with C++ and OpenGL and a 2D jigsaw puzzle and a Mahjong for Windows using C#, the .NET framework and Managed DirectX. Implemented the game front-end, tools for GUI scripting/editing, assets pipeline system, tools for shapes design generation using Bèzier curves and the puzzle game-play.

.NET back-end tools for resource compilers for Outsider, resource compiler, porting Lost Winds from Nintendo Wii to Nintendo DS, converting code from Lua to C++. Used Nintendo SDK, C++, CodeWarrior. Used C# for assets pipelines. Tools for Nintendo DS, sound system for music and spot sound effects, font system with kerning. For a Morgan Stanley project, Windows MFC front end interfaces to a data mining system, Adobe Flex RIAs, Java servlets back-ends on Tomcat, generating Excel spreadsheets by Jakarta/POI.

Worked as contractor in an online casino gaming project in a 50+ team. Developed a 3D software rendering engine in C. Worked on various additional tools for the rendering engine with C++/C and MFC. I implemented online games such as roulette using the cross platform framework developed on the house using C only cross platform on Windows and Linux.

Worked as contractor, developed DirectX, Win32 and Java games (Jigsaw Puzzles, 2D and 3D Mahjong), maintained the company websites, developed new web sites, handled customer support for websites and company products. Written product specifications, system requirements, product documentation for help systems. (DirectX, C++, MFC, HTML, PHP)

Developed an informational system for a research & development company. Also handled people's training and solving support problems, consultant in hardware buying decisions.

Built a computer management system for a 200+ people knitting factory including a proprietary database system for the manufacturing process. Handled people training and support for using the software, solved technical problems, involved in hardware buying decisions for supporting the system. Technologies: C++, MFC, HTML for generated reports.