About me
I'm Tristan, a game developer and video editor out of Kelowna, BC.
On the game side I build real-time gameplay systems and production-ready features in Unity and C#. On the video side I cut ads, trailers and short-form content for brands like Hyundai and Fairfield Audio, plus creators who need the story pulled out of hours of footage.
Either way, I take your idea and ship the finished thing.
Clients
Experience
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Founder & Principal Developer
2025 - PresentAlpinePages
- Founded AlpinePages, a web design and hosting studio building small business sites across British Columbia.
- Run the whole thing end to end: first call, design, hand written HTML, CSS and JS, launch and aftercare.
- Own the hosting side too, Cloudflare Pages deploys, domains, DNS, email routing and the SEO setup on every launch.
- Shipped sites for fencing, contracting, restoration and christmas lighting clients, all maintained on monthly plans.
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Lead Game Developer & Advisor
2025 - PresentCodeAlgo Academy
- Built the game side of the platform from the ground up, a K-8 coding and math learning game shipped on web and Android.
- Designed and wrote the lesson gameplay: block coding, line coding, challenge levels, and the progression and reward layer on top.
- Set up the Unity architecture the content team builds new lessons on, so curriculum ships without new code every time.
- Maintain the Django backend behind student and teacher logins, and run the Cloudflare deploys and production releases.
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Video Editor
2024 - PresentFairfield Audio
- Cut video for a game audio studio that works with Disney, EA and Warner Bros. Discovery.
- Cut showreels, trailers and social content, full pass from assembly through colour, sound and graphics.
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Technical Director & Programmer
2023 - PresentPatchbay Games
- Lead developer on Aster Initiative, a 1990s FMV desktop horror game headed to Steam.
- Built LapetusOS, the fictional in-game operating system: windowing, email client, browser, file and media tools.
- Wrote the dialogue, puzzle, suspicion and save systems, and the Unity architecture holding them together.
- Own the Steam build pipeline, the Next Fest demo build, and the studio website.
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Video Editor
2024Hyundai Motor America
- Edited spots for national campaigns including Hyundai Hope and the 30 for 30 series.
- Delivered vertical cutdowns of each spot for mobile and social placement.
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Software Programmer
2022 - 2023MP4U
- Built the internal analytics tool for Meal Prep For You, a Kelowna meal prep company.
- PyQt desktop app that loaded their spreadsheet exports with filtering, sorting and charts over order and production data.
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Game Developer
2022Divergent Realities
- Gameplay work on Cards & Tankards, a social collectible card game shipped in VR on Meta Quest and Steam.
- Optimization passes to hold frame rate on standalone Quest hardware.
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Game Developer
2020 - 2023Exocubic Games
- Gameplay programming on Revolution NYX, a cyberpunk VR action title.
- Built physics-based VR locomotion, full body VRIK tracking, and hand interaction systems from scratch.
- Wrote a SpatialOS and PlayFab authentication bridge so clients and gamelogic workers ran off one account flow.
