Roberto F.

I help studios and companies build Unreal Engine worlds, tools and interactive systems that look right and run well, either hands-on or as technical director. I have 13+ years in real-time 3D and 100% Job Success. My most recent long-term role was CTO, Technical Director and Lead Technical Artist on the Toronto Waterfront Digital Twin. I joined as the first artist and grew into leading a distributed team of 20–25 people. Epic Games' enterprise team reviewed the project for a possible showcase. SELECTED WORK • Toronto Waterfront Digital Twin. A 1:1, ~2 km² city in UE5, streamed to the browser. I built the shader-driven facade system and all materials and lighting, plus Houdini tools for infrastructure. The scene integrates Cesium 3D Tiles, building data from Toronto Open Data, live traffic cameras and real-time weather. I also set the modeling standards, tools and QA for the whole team. • World of Drift. My own UE5 drift simulator, built solo. It has custom vehicle physics and force feedback, PlayFab matchmaking and lobbies, zone-based battle scoring, a 5-camera replay system, MetaSounds audio and procedural track-generation tools. • Scan-to-Life. A live installation where children colour drawings on paper, scan them and watch them come alive in UE5. It handles QR-based alignment, runtime texture processing and 50 animated actors with custom AI, at 140 FPS with 20 creatures on a gaming laptop. It's been deployed at a major retail venue and at public events. • Defense VR training (NDA). Performance-focused VR environments, including a full-scale hangar and a C-130J aircraft interior. • CES keynote cinematics. UE5.5 cinematic shots of futuristic cities and automotive technology. • Interior Cubemap System. My parallax interior shader for UE5, available on Fab. HOW I CAN HELP • Unreal Engine technical direction, project architecture and pipeline setup • Technical art: shaders, materials, lighting and editor tools • Performance optimization: draw calls, streaming, memory and frame time • Digital twins, large worlds and GIS (Cesium, World Partition, Nanite, Lumen) • Automotive visualization and vehicle systems • Multiplayer (PlayFab), simulation and VR training • Interactive installations and real-time cinematics • PCG and procedural tools, including Houdini Engine • Documentation, onboarding and QA for distributed teams I work mainly in Blueprints, PCG, rendering and technical art, and use C++ where a project needs it. I contract through my EU-registered company, I'm NDA-friendly, and I've spent 3+ years working with teams across US, Canadian and UK time zones. Send me your project's current stage, target platform and timeline, and tell me where you need support.