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Education
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Hi, I’m

Vivek Kalkoor

Application Developer
Bangalore
Vivek Kalkoor

Summary

Objective - To pursue an exciting career and thereby utilize my skills and abilities for professional growth, while being creative and innovative with every challenge.

Key Skills: Unity, Unreal and Godot application development, VR, AR, MR.


Profile Summary:

· Overall experience of around 10+ years in building 2D&3Dgames and applications, ArchViz walkthroughs, VR and AR applications using Unity, Unreal and Godot game engines.

· Conducted Unity workshops fort gaming companies and engineering colleges pan India for a brief stint about 5 years ago.

· Experience in analyzing functional requirements, low level requirements and preparing design- documents.

· Good communication, collaboration & team building skills.

· Good at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilizing the same in a productive manner.

· Self-taught game and application developer.

Overview

12
years of professional experience
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Target Corporation
Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer
05.2016 - Current

Job overview

Unity:

  • Developed apps for store walkthrough using Unity and demonstrated to partners and leaders for their views/corrections.
  • Created applications for Standalone and iOS.

Unity 2022 and Unreal 4.27:

  • Self learned Unreal Engine and started developing apps for quality purposes using Datasmith files
  • Guided team for proper workflow of models/materials/textures in 3DS Max to Unity/Unreal.
  • At times wrote few scripts like VRay to standard material conversion and few automation process in 3DS max.
  • Started developing apps for VR. First one to be in Unity and then tethered to HTC Vive.
  • There was no stopping back after that. Switched to Unreal and using Datasmith files started to demonstrate walkthrough in HTC Vive
  • Using Unreal started to develop apps for Oculus quest devices.
  • Excellent Team player

Godot 3.5 and 4.0 above:

  • Learnt Godot and started developing 2d and 3D applications.
  • Created apps and ran it successfully onto quest devices.
  • Created apps to understand various UI elements(Controls)
  • Created small demo to make HTTP calls via server and get response in Godot.

ARK Infosolutions
Bangalore

Technical Manager
10.2014 - 01.2016

Job overview

  • During this stint I had conducted workshops on Unity.
  • Used to handle technical queries and provide resolution if any firm had with regard to Unity in pan India (Mumbai,Pune and Hyderabad).
  • Was frequently visiting the game studios in Mumbai and Pune and give them performance and optimization related resolutions.
  • Had been to one of the Engineering colleges in Hyderabad and pitched Unity to be a part of the syllabus.

Manipal Digital Systems
Manipal

Application Developer(Android and IOS)
07.2011 - 10.2013

Job overview

  • Involved in creating storyboard and Game Design Document.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders regarding project capabilities and limitations to deliver optimal functionalities
  • Created applications for Mac and Windows systems.
  • Guided team in layout modifications to improve functionality.

Education

KVG College of Engineering
Sullia

Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
08.2005 - 06.2009

Viveka Junior College
Kota,Udupi

Pre University from Science Education
06.2003 - 05.2005

Milagres School
Udupi

Karnataka Secondary Board of Education from General
01.2001 - 01.2003

Skills

    Application developer

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Accomplishments

    In Target:

  • Received lots of accolades,recognitions and awards(Have most of the recognition certificates).
  • Won Hackathon 2018 in Guest experience category (Digital VR)
  • Won Hackathon 2019 for best VR experience (Las Vegas store)
  • Participated in Demo day 2019 during TIAM for showcasing the Fixture Finder app developed for iOS
  • Placed 3rd in the Hackathon 2021(stARtApp)
  • Participated in Hackathon 2022.

Hobbies

- Listening to music

- Outdoor activities

- Travelling

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Target Corporation
05.2016 - Current

Technical Manager

ARK Infosolutions
10.2014 - 01.2016

Application Developer(Android and IOS)

Manipal Digital Systems
07.2011 - 10.2013

KVG College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
08.2005 - 06.2009

Viveka Junior College

Pre University from Science Education
06.2003 - 05.2005

Milagres School

Karnataka Secondary Board of Education from General
01.2001 - 01.2003
Vivek KalkoorApplication Developer