Joined: August 2017

Left: September 2019

Role: System Designer, Junior Technical Designer

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Crytek was my first industry role after graduating and shipping the Pathos project. I relocated to Frankfurt am Main, arriving a few months before Hunt: Showdown's Alpha release. While onboarding during crunch, I volunteered my time on the weapon balancing pipeline - rebuilding the balancing spreadsheet to give us better eye-glance comparisons and landing my first submits early.

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Technical Design was still a niche discipline, and I was one of only two TDs at the studio. That meant I was exposed to a lot quickly: I was brought into hiring, learning to interview and technically assess candidates from junior to senior level, and was involved in application sorting and final decisions.

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My core focus was AI characters and weapons/gadgets, alongside the classic TD role of unblocking the team wherever design and code met. I also worked with the content and community teams — appearing on patch-release streams and helping capture gameplay footage for feature videos.

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I was promoted to a System Designer during Early Access and stayed through the full 1.0 release, after which I decided to return to the UK.​