Tyler Loewen

• Maintained and managed releases of multiple production Julia packages responsible for calculating and storing company financials
• Reduced time to production by 4 hours for time critical releases by designing and implementing a Docker solution reducing CI run times
• Facilitated key business decisions by designing and implementing a Julia data pipeline to process and store company financial performance data
• Improved runtime of machine learning jobs by 5% by parallelizing the parsing of query results in a distributed AWS Batch compute environment
• Wrote project proposal by translating business requirements and technical specifications and incorporating feedback from developers and executives
• Updated production PostgreSQL database table schemas and permissions and supported the updates with wide-sweeping code changes
• Increased overall development efficiency by onboarding new developers, advising on multiple projects, and training other teams on new systems

• Increased visibility of missing data allowing for prompt backfills by creating an automated Slack channel report using Python
• Streamlined the set up, usage, and extension of new services and packages for others by writing organized and concise documentation

• Prototyped a tool in Unity to increase the efficiency of set dressing for artists using physics and implemented it in Ubisoft’s ANVIL game engine
• Reduced time spent prototyping by assisting team in learning Unity3D
• Created the UI/UX for the set dressing tool using C# and WPF
• Presented the development process and final results of the set dressing tool to 60 people at the Ubisoft Winnipeg studio

• Re-implemented and improved an existing administration user login window using C# and WPF
• Increased productivity of employees by developing a utility to automate the exporting of large XML files to formatted Excel spreadsheets
• Added new UI layout keywords by extending internal languages

• Contribute to the R&D and launch of new honey and candle products
• Created and manage e-commerce website and social media improving customer engagement and retention
• Track product inventory and sales to determine supply and demand needs
• Ensure customer satisfaction by communicating professionally and effectively through email, phone, and in-person interactions

Bachelor of Computer Science - Honours (Co-op)

Specializations

• Human-Computer Interaction & Computer Graphics
• Databases
• Software Engineering

University 1 Honour List

• Fall 2016
• Winter 2017

Dean's Honour List

• Fall 2017
• Winter 2018
• Winter 2020

Awarded UoM Student Union Scholarship

A CLI tool to find mutually owned games between Steam friends.

Arena Survival

A simple but high intensity projectile dodging game.

A medium-fidelity prototype developed to study how people navigate within a venue.

Project Paper | Visualizations
A k-means clustering algorithm using global geospatial satellite weather data. Clustered weather data over a period of a year is projected onto a map of the Earth and animated to create a visualization of changes over time.

• Researched various datasets for project
• Correlated the output of the k-means clustering algorithm to physical geography concepts

A web, iOS, and Android application that lets you find, rate, and review washrooms in your vicinity

• Created login screen for web and iOS app
• Built detailed building view listing washrooms contained in a building
• Added favourited washrooms to user profile

A music player used to manage and play music stored on their device.

• Created database interface to retrieve and insert song, album, and music information
• Set up and configured a HyperSQL Database

Demo Video | Project Paper | Builds
A procedural voxel world generator that implements road generation using A* path finding.

Prototype | Project Report
A high-fidelity prototype to track personal health and fitness activities.

• Performed user experiments and surveys to gather feedback during prototype development

Project Report | Builds

A procedural terrain generator that implements Gouraud and Flat shading models, endless terrain generation using chunks, mesh and collider LOD, multithreading, and Perlin noise maps.

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