Joey Pla, Developer

• Based in Montreal, Canada
• English, French
• Product-Focused
• Strong technical background
• Wide domain knowledge (Games, Engine Architecture)
• Experience raising capital: Private and Canadian Media Fund (CMF-FMC)
• A more comprehensive list of my projects is available

Skills

• C++, C#
• Unity, Unreal
• Virtual Reality Development, WebVR
• Optimization with tight constraints

PSYKO, Solo VR Project // June 2023 - Current

I’m currently working on PSYKO as a solo developer with a tentative release of July 2024

• PCVR and Oculus Quest 2/3
• Developed in Unity, C#
• Custom Light-Probe solution for procedural environments

Enthusiast Games, Founder and Developer // November 2016 - Current

I founded Enthusiast Games after raising private capital from a prototype of my VR game, NeverBound. Since then, we’ve built our own VR games, as well as applications for clients. Our team was small, with a maximum size of 6 people.

• Majority of time spent on programming and design
• Optimization for VR and Standalone VR Devices (Quest)
• Negotiated publishing and licensing deals
• Collaborated with in-house artists, designers and external contractors
• Technical and business documentation for various projects for the Canadian Media Fund (CMF)
• Technical documentation for in-house tech eligible for R&D Tax credits

Projects

I lead the development of several projects. See here for more detail.

• NeverBound - VR First-Person Shooter
• Flappy Flappy VR - Arcade Flying Platformer
• Vector Sector - Musical Twin-Stick Shooter VR/PC
• Manufactory - Factory Automation, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid (Canadian Media Fund)
• Military Robotics Program (Pivot from above)
• McGill BioEngineering AR/VR experience
• Other projects for clients. Feel free to ask me about these.

Learning Bird, Full-stack Developer // May 2014 - November 2016

LearningBird is a Ed-Tech company hooking up teachers with students, matching video content to curriculums around the world.

• PHP, CSS/SCSS, SQL, Javascript
• Back-end development
• Front-end, working with UI/UX designers
• Test-Driven Development

Simuplan, Developer // June 2011 - September 2011

Simuplan builds software responsible for operating machines for Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy. I worked on various features as a programmer during a summer internship.

• Working with founder on spec’ing out new features
• User-interface implementation with Objective-C
• Public Key infrastructure for licensing and validation

Electronic Arts, QA, Tools Developer // June 2012 - November 2012

Originally hired as a QA Tester, I was moved to tools development after demonstrating programming ability to assist in writing tools that would improve testing pipeline.

• Visual Basic for applications (VBA)
• Writing in-sheet scripts to manage data and speak to external services