# Mingxuan Li

> Master of Science Computer Science Student at CU | Software Programmer at Ripple Effect Studios | Interested in Gameplay Programming | Course Producer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mingxuanli

My education program and previous game programmer internships has equipped me with a specialized skill set spanning the following areas:

-> Tool Development
- Improved and added an existing paint brush system used by the art team of 20 members at Netease Games using C#

-> Game Programming
- Developed an exchange store system which supports 100+ items for a recently shipped game at Tencent Games using Lua

-> Game Development
- Led an engineering team to develop, test, and improve a capstone game project at USC

I'm actively looking for 2022 summer gameplay programmer internship or full-time gameplay programmer position.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ripple Effect Studios
Jan 2023 – Present | Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

### Gameplay Engineer Intern @ Treyarch
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Game Programmer @ NetEase Games
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Modified a brush system of terrain surfaces to support height-blending functionality using C# and shaders
- Designed an automated conversion algorithm to reformat previous terrain surface data of 30+ test scenes into a new version
- Conducted an integrated storage pipeline to save scene data to make existing deserialization work for 10+ game scenes
- Created tools within Unity to serve needs of an art team of around 20 members to ease work

### Game Programmer @ Tencent Games
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Prototyped an exchange store system containing 100+ items to enable players to preview and purchase by utilizing Lua
- Added a functionality to enable players to select a specific branch and timely notify other team members within game
- Increased stability of game build by deploying script-substitute methods to debug 5+ runtime-specific problems

### Course Producer @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | 大洛杉矶地区
- Held weekly office hours to answer questions about course materials and assignments from students
- Hosted a weekly discussion session to go through algorithm questions with students
- Helped the professor to score the assignments and exams

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | 大洛杉矶地区
- Built a user-based study with a PhD researcher to predict individuals' tendencies to assembly a shelf and conducted 30+ cases in person with subjects
- Extracted timelines of subjects' motions in ELAN, categorized 5 major types of sequences, and presented results to a mentor


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Games
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mingxual
- GitHub: https://github.com/mingxual

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Last updated: 2026-04-13