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Kevin Dominguez Alves

Senior Software Engineer

Lugano, Switzerland

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About

I am a Software Engineer with a passion for 3D computer graphics and automation.

Projects

Argon

Futuristic Grand strategy Game set on a distant world, with a focus on full climate simulation, terraforming, fluid diplomacy and nuclear proliferation.

Dev diaries:

Experience

Lead Engineer

Project Argon [WiP]

Aug 2024 - Ongoing

Mission:
    Build a Futuristic Grand strategy Game set on a distant world, with a focus on full climate simulation, terraforming, fluid diplomacy and nuclear proliferation.
Responsibilities:
  • Project Lead and main StakeHolder
  • GameEngine ([WiP] name : KDAEngine) Design and implementation
  • Gameplay Design and implementation
  • UX Design and implementation
  • Art Direction

Senior Software Engineer

Nomoko AG

Feb 2022 - Dec 2023

Mission:
    Make the physical world machine-readable through Digital Twins by developing a unique mapping platform combining photorealistic 3D aerial models with comprehensive data layers
Responsibilities:
  • Automate the photorealistic 3D aerial models creation:
  • Translate manual in-house processes to automated scripts.
  • Develop Bleneder plugins for in house processes.
Accomplishments:

Scaled up production rate with the Design, implementation and maintenance of the ETL pipeline for 3D aerial models creation.

Pipeline components:

    • Resource intensive python-based workers distributed across machines in the cloud (AWS) and on-premise.
    • Orchestrator with a web UI to manage the workers with RESTful APIs.
    • PostgresSQL DB to hold raw and transformed data.
    • Storage management for cloud and on-premise data in the 50TB range.

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Software Engineer

Hegias AG

Oct 2020 - Feb 2022

Mission:
    Interior design development using virtual reality.
Responsibilities:
  • Maintain the in-house 3D processing Pipeline (3DPL) for VR ready 3D models optimization.
  • Design and Develop new features for the 3DPL.
Accomplishments:

Started as Junior dev as a part of the 3DPL team, rose to the position of team lead.

Notable contributions:

    • Implemented 3D Mesh optimization for VR content display.
    • Brought performance improvments in multithreading python application based on Blender API.

Education

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Bachelor in Software Sngineering

SUPSI, Switzerland

Sept 2016 - Dec 2022

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AFC/CFC/EFZ in information technology

SAMT, Switzerland

Sept 2012 - Jun 2016

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