Jake Rose

Persona Platform

Persona AI

Working with industry veterans on a cutting edge AI Avatar. Expressive, emotionally aware, and able to navigate complex conversations.

Unreal Engineer [Contract]

Nov 2024 - Now

Working on Avatar Client, AI model integration, pixel streaming, networking systems, devops + automation, UI, audio processing, and bugfixing.

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Survios

Alien: Rogue Incursion is a brand-new single-player action-horror VR game that immerses players in the world of Alien

Software Engineer [Contract]

Apr 2024 - Oct 2024

Rejoined team through early production to the game going old. Added pause world system, worked on quest systems, VO/Audio systems, gameplay objects/interactables, adaptive trigger support, and fixing large bugs.

Cancelled FPS Title

Deviation Games

Cancelled Sci-Fi Multiplayer FPS with AAA Quaility comparable to Call of Duty. In partnership with Playstation.

Gameplay Engineer

Sept 2022 - Mar 2024

Worked on the weapons and player mechanics team during our CCC hardening up to vertical slice with our pod carrying a large amount of production momentum. Prior to that worked on metagame UI systems, as well as R&D enemy AI technology.

Creed: Rise To Glory
Championship Edition

Survios

A port of one of the most played VR games of all time.
Now on Quest 2 and PSVR2.

Associate Software Engineer

Feb 2022 - Sept 2022

Ported original game from heavily modified UE4 to UE5, including switching physics engines. Worked on updated statistics system.

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Survios

Associate Software Engineer

Aug 2021 - Feb 2022

Worked in pre-production on foundation VR Interaction systems such as hand magnetism, hand animations, grab points, aim-assist, and player/npc synced animations; all still existing in game.

Junkpunk Arena

Champlain College

Create the robot of destruction you have been dreaming about, then throw it in the destruction arena. Build it up, Tear it down!

Lead Engineer / Network Engineer

Oct 2020 - May 2021

Made game network stable from it being non-networked as we entered production, Managed three other programmers while maintaining our netcode stability and overall handling large chunks of gameplay implementation. Handled Steamworks webpage and uploading game using SteamTools.

Five Finger Gunslinger

Champlain College

A third-person, online, arena-battle game where players compete against their friends to become the most popular kid in the west. Battle evil cactus-bandits and pelt your opponents with water balloons as you struggle for suburban supremacy!

Lead Engineer / Network Engineer

Feb 2020 - Aug 2020

Ensured that we had very consistant and stable netcode as well as working on much of the gameplay and core systems. One of two engineers, acted as Lead. Handled Steamworks webpage and uploading game using SteamTools.

Eclipse OS

clean code for addressable led patterns

A lighting framework to bring a shader designer ecosystem into microcontrollers using a keyframe and generator based system design. Iterated and expanded code while developing devices for multiple events.

Jan 2024 - May 2025

Samplify Plus

A easy to use open-source sample browser/tester.

A musical sample library browser with a full and unique interface to allow you to organize your samples better.
Written in C++ using the JUCE Library.

Apr 2019 - July 2020

Skyscraper

A custom zombies map for Black Ops 3 Zombies.
Skyscraper was a three-month project using Radient, the Call of Duty Development Tools.
With over 500 downloads and zero advertising, I say it was a successful first map release!

Aug 2016 - Apr 2017

The Jacket

The full vision of Eclipse OS

An upgraded jacket for Neotropolis. A significant upgrade to the library to allow the patterns to be 2D mapped and finish the Eclipse OS library.

Oct 2024 - Apr 2025

The Pendant

The hardware side of Eclipse OS v1

A generalist device used on multiple cosplay events. A centralized device with simple IO to allow easy navigation of a pattern state machine.

Oct 2023 - Apr 2024

The Scanner

An escape room experience, completely portable

A homebrew digital scavenger hunt game made to work at an outdoor camping trip. Modular gameplay system for future events and generalized compatibility. A great detail on creating a seamless LED sequence for a dynamically and uniquely themed scanning state machine.

Aug 2023 - Nov 2023

The Totem

A lighting structure designed to be a beacon for friends at large festivals and events. Created with WS2812B and written in C++. Seamless palette blending/cycling. 8+hr battery. Lasted four events.

Jan 2022 - May 2022

The Window

A lighting exhibit connected to SignalRGB. 2D led patterns with dynamic effects.

Nov 2021 - Feb 2022