Mahesan

Game Developer with 2+ years of experience in Unity and Unreal Engine 5, specializing in immersive simulations, gameplay systems, and interactive applications. Delivered government-funded educational projects involving AI-based systems, real-time performance optimization, and cross-platform game development.

Game & VR Developer at SIMTECH VR, IIT Research Park (2024-06 – Present)

• Porunai Museum Experience — Unreal Engine 5 | C++ & Blueprints: Engineered Arduino-integrated interactive museum experience with real-time hardware-to-character animation synchronization
• AI Interactive Assistant — Unreal Engine 5 | MetaHuman | Python NLP: Built an AI-powered digital assistant for the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission using Unreal Engine 5 and a Python NLP backend, integrated with a MetaHuman character featuring real-time phoneme-driven lip-sync animations via the MetaHuman Runtime Lip Sync plugin.
• Government Game Applications — Unity 2D/3D: Created 3 interactive game applications (Districts of Distinction, Wings of Youth, Wheel of Properties) for government initiatives, reaching 10,000+ citizens across Tamil Nadu for educational outreach.
• Developing 3D asset creation in Blender with performance-optimized real-time rendering workflows; familiar with shader programming and procedural generation techniques

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Thiruparankundram (2021-05 – 2024-05)