Omid Saadat

Process–Driven Technical Artist and Cross-Team Coordinator with 17+ years of experience driving technical excellence and team development across AAA and mobile game production. Proven track record of taking ownership in leadership roles, mentoring teams, establishing pipelines for 50+ developers, and delivering complex technical solutions that save production time.

Technical Expertise:

Core Technical Arts:

Shader Programming: Node-based (Shader Graph, Amplify) and Code-based (HLSL, GLSL)
Tool Development: Stand-alone applications, Editor Extensions, and In-Game Tools
Procedural Generation: Textures, Meshes, Levels, and Content Automation
VFX & Simulation: Particle Systems, Physics Simulation, and Visual Effects
Performance Optimization: Profiling, Asset Optimization, and Runtime Performance
AI Integration: Text-to-Text (automation reports), Text-to-Image, Image-to-Image, Video/Audio models for pipeline optimization

Technical Leadership:

Pipeline Architecture: DCC-to-Engine workflows, Asset Management, and Build Automation
Game Architecture & Design Patterns: MVC, ECS, DDD, and Scalable Code Frameworks
Automated Build Pipelines & CI/CD: Github Actions, GitLab Runner, Jenkins, and Deployment Systems
Cross-Platform Development: Unity3D, Unreal Engine, Godot and In-house Engines

Production & Process Leadership:

Agile/Scrum pipeline design, resource & budget forecasting
Stakeholder engagement: translating creative requirements, managing scope, ROI presentations
Cross-team coordination: aligning artists, engineers & producers for efficient workflows
AI-Driven Automation: Implementing AI models for content generation, quality assurance, and pipeline optimization

Scalability & Performance Strategy:

Large-scale pipeline maintenance for 50+ team members across studios
Profiling tools, LOD strategies, asset optimization for cross-platform delivery
Strategic roadmap development for technical art pipelines

Leadership Impact & Key Achievements:

Stepped into Leadership: Took full responsibility for all technical art disciplines
Team Development: Trained and mentored technical artists, conducted teams of 20+ developers and artists
Process Innovation: Designed pipelines saving up to 99.96% of artist time by developing tools to handle a 1 day task in 10 seconds
AI Pipeline Integration: Leveraged AI models (text-to-image, image-to-image) for rapid prototyping and automated content generation in production workflows
Standards Establishment: Created comprehensive art pipeline documentation for 50+ team members
Cross-Studio Coordination: Facilitated communication between multiple studios in co-development environment
Technical Ownership: Led FarCry franchise vehicle pipeline architecture and implementation
Knowledge Transfer: Prepared educational materials and trained teams on new technologies and workflows

Experience:

Senior Technical Artist at Ubisoft Blue Byte [01-2024 - Present][Dusseldorf/Germany]

Assumed technical leadership for all technical art disciplines during initial technical audit and continued ownership thereafter
Architected and delivered DCC-to-engine pipeline for vehicle assets in the FarCry franchise, featuring:
- DCC-independent workflow enabling artists to use various DCC tools (e.g., Blender, 3dsMax, Maya) seamlessly.
- Encapsulated team-specific scopes, allowing the modeling team to adjust visuals without impacting animation integrity.
- Support for rigging and animating unskinned models to optimize performance.
- Out-of-the-box data delivery for real-time ray tracing.
Effective development of automated tools to:
- Generate required model hierarchies based on asset metadata.
- Create dynamic collision meshes and material collisions from the model.
- Split and merge model parts by material ID.
- Simulate vehicle damage variants.
- Bake deformation data into vertex colors for runtime damage visualization based on hit positions passed to the shader.
Designed and implemented graph-setup tool saving artist time while ensuring team consistency by handling a 1 day task in 10 seconds.
Drove cross-studio collaboration and communication between multiple teams in co-development environment
Led performance optimization initiatives through profiling and strategic planning
Mentored and trained technical artist to take ownership of vehicle shader systems

Freelance Technical Artist at Gameloft Toronto [07-2022 - 04-2023][Istanbul/Turkey]

Optimized art pipeline for increased development speed supporting both legacy in-house engine and Unity
Profiled and optimized game performance for mobile devices using Unity Profiler
Developed tools for artists and designers to improve workflow and reduce human error
Prepared educational materials on technical requirements for different teams, such as Git for artists

Lead Programmer and Technical Artist at LeMoonade [10-2021 - 07-2022][Istanbul/Turkey]

Provided technical solutions, technology, shaders, tools, and pipeline for a blockchain-based game
Created a fully interactive 3D static website using Unity for CryptoRoomZ Project to introduce the product, showcase the work, and show off technical capabilities
Developed a dedicated task execution system for executing website interactive object behaviors

Technical Artist At Cafe Bazaar [09-2020 – 07-2021][Karaj/Iran]

Provided technical solutions, technology, shaders, tools, and pipeline to four different F2P mobile game titles
Developed an optimized and easy-to-use camera system for game designers in a racing game
Wrote an editor tool called OpenJuice for developers and designers to juice up two games
Prepared comprehensive documentation containing standards for 2D and 3D art pipelines for 30+ people
Conducted two teams of 10+ developers and artists to optimize assets and codes
Analyzed and optimized projects to satisfy art and performance needs and keep the balance between beautiful and fast

Lead Game Programmer At Arsam Robotics [01-2020 – 12-2021][Part-Time][Karaj/Iran]

Provided technology, tools, and pipeline for a physical/digital toy with four digital games
Provided solutions in challenging situations based on deadlines, budget, and human resources
Formed a team of 2 other developers to have an optimized pipeline, delivering data from android native image processing library to Unity
Coded an API in Unity to map Android native image processing data into in-game events and data

Gameplay Programmer At Garaj Games [10-2019 – 10-2020][Tehran/Iran]

Implemented core gameplay mechanics in Unity using C# for a Match3 game
Built an editor tool in Unity for game designers to make 10+ levels per day
Developed a bot in Unity to play levels and measure their difficulty and playability

Freelance Game Programmer At Cultural Infusion [07-2018 – 09-2019][Karaj/Iran]

Structured DDD (Data Driven Design) architectures for fast, responsive music-based games in Unity
Effectively implemented procedural workflows to convert designed levels into JSON format and read them in Unity to increase development speed
Worked closely with other teams, including game design, art, back-end, and test, to consider game performance, stability, and maintainability

Game Programmer At Pooyegaam [08-2017 – 07-2018][Tehran/Iran]

Technically managed development process in a highly challenging online pet game, reporting and presenting regular progress to the CEO to ensure the project is on the right path
Coded a framework with dependency injection in Unity for an extendable and maintainable game
Worked closely with game development and marketing teams to make sure the development process met final product requirements

Senior Game Programmer At Electro Gryphon Games [09-2015 – 08-2017][Tehran/Iran]

Built game prototypes and technical demos to be able to feel raw ideas
Built editor tools for game designers and artists to validate their designed levels and produced assets
Programmed gameplay and maintained code-base using Unity and C# for a top-down shooter game for mobile platforms

Game Programmer And Tool Developer At Bitbyterz [01-2014 – 09-2015][Tehran/Iran]

Wrote gameplay, UI, and editor tools for game designers and artists for Memoranda (A point-Click adventure game based on Murakami novels)

Game Programmer And 3D Generalist At Shexel [03-2012 – 01-2015][Part-Time][Tehran/Iran]

Created complex 3D models using 3D Studio Max, Maya, Blender, and Zbrush, UV(Unwrapping), Textured using Photoshop and Gimp, and rendered game cinematics and animations using VRay, MentalRay, and Lumion
Designed, made prototypes, and wrote three games and two mobile applications using GameMaker Studio

Senior Character/Environment Artist At Fsr Company [09-2007 – 10-2013][Karaj/Iran]

Modeled 3D environment and characters, Unwrap, and texture
Mentored 3D animator to achieve usable character rigs and animations in-game
Created max scripts tools to automatically bake lighting in five levels and export them from 3dsMax into Leadwerks game engine

Education:

Karaj Islamic Azad University (KIAU), 2006-2010 - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Graphics

Awards & Honors:

Instructor at Iran Game Development Institute [2017-2018][Tehran/Iran]: Taught Unity engine fundamentals and advanced architectures to beginner and intermediate students
Volunteer TechArt Mentor at ADPList platform - adplist.org/mentors/omid-saadat offering free one-on-one career and technical-art mentoring sessions to aspiring artists and developers
Best Game Award for SATYAR: RETURN TO PARSEH on 2nd Broadcast Engineering Conference, 2007

Interests:

Video games: Journey, Engareh, Devil may cry 3, The Neverhood, Kingdom Rush, Plant vs. Zombies, HomeScapes!
Anime: One Piece, Naruto, Black Clover

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