Portfolio
Hello, my name is Jarod Sjogren and I am a Gameplay Programmer at Triiodide Studios working on Backrooms: Escape Together!
Gameplay Programmer at Triiodide Studios, a small remote studio working on Backrooms: Escape Together.
Gameplay Programmer II at Hi-Rez Studios, a medium-sized studio in Alpharetta, GA. At Hi-Rez I had the opportunity to work on a ton of really amazing projects. For the majority of my tenture I focused on four areas: the god migration pipeline from SMITE 1 (UE3) to SMITE 2 (UE5), the gameplay development of SMITE 2 exclusive gods, the ranked and role preference systems in SMITE 2, and any Meta Sound tasks required by our audio engineering team.
Gameplay Programmer and then Gameplay Programmer II at Prophecy Games, a small studio in Alpharetta, GA. At Prophecy I had the opportunity to work on many of the core systems for the games we produced while collaborating closely with the designers and artists. I also worked as an interviewer and mentor for some of the newer gameplay programmers joining the company.
Gameplay Programmer at Project Tall Grass, an indie group creating an open world monster battling RPG. I was one of the lead developers and project founders, and I was one of the key decision makers when it came to the game's architecture and direction. Prior to starting at Prophecy Games, we were prototyping multiple alternatives for combat in the game. I have attached the two combat prototypes I developed above.
Data Analyst at State Farm Insurance, a Fortune 50 company, from May 2019 to July 2021. I served as the product owner and sole developer for my team's work intake site which was hosted on AWS. Alongside this, I spent my time serving as a solutions architect for business areas within State Farm during their transition from on-prem data sources to AWS.
For more information, please email me at contact@jarodsjogren.com.
