About

A games industry veteran with over twenty years experience, Kieran has held programming roles including technical director and lead game programmer in companies such as Rare, Evolution Studios, Fabrik and Expression Games. In 2018 he formed Koding Limited under which he offered his programming and consultancy services. He is currently the Studio Technical Director and a Co-Founder of Expression Games.

Kieran spent his early career specialising in artificial intelligence for third person, first person and racing games. In 2012 he was invited to make a presentation at the Vienna Game AI conference for his work on the AI in Motorstorm: Apocalypse where the AI had to deal with highly dynamic racing environments.

During his time at Evolution Studios, he led the game programming team for both Motorstorm: Apocalypse and Driveclub. After Evolution Studios, he held the position of studio technical director at Fabrik Games where he built a team and technology to successfully launch two multi-platform games.

Since starting Koding Limited, he took on a diverse set of work. From technical direction and programming to conducting technical due diligence reports for publishers wanting additional peace of mind for games they were considering signing.

After assisting with the successful acquisition of Fabrik Games into the Firesprite Group and Sony, Kieran, along with his co-founders, formed Expression Games. Initially Expression Games was a co-developer on Hell Let Loose, supporting that game in live service. More recently Expression Games has built Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. Expression Games is also working on other internal and external projects. You can read more about Expression here: expressiongames.com

Kieran loves programming and helping companies position themselves to be successful, but most of all he loves solving problems, wherever they may be found.

Companies and Clients

• Expression Games
• Fabrik Games
• Evolution Studios
• Rare
• Ultimatum Games
• Crescent Code
• Creative Assembly
• Phaser Lock Interactive
• Sega
• Team17
• Curve Digital
• Raspberry Pi

Titles

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam

Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Xbox Series, PS5
Technical Director
Expression Games

Hell Let Loose

Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Xbox Series, PS5
Technical Director
Expression Games

Horizon Call of the Mountain

PSVR
Principal Programmer
Fabrik Games

Overcooked! 2

Game Pass PC
Contract Programmer, porting to new platform
Ultimatum Games

Shenmue I & II

Game Pass PC
Contract Programmer, porting to new platform
Ultimatum Games

Final Assault

PC VR
Contract Programmer, Esports version
Ultimatum Games

Total War: Elysium

Unannounced
Contract Programmer
Ultimatum Games

The Lost Bear

Playstation VR & Oculus Rift
Technical Director
Fabrik Games

Filthy Lucre

Playstation 4 & PC
Technical Director
Fabrik Games

Driveclub

Playstation 4
Lead Game Programmer
Evolution Studios

Motorstorm: RC

Playstation 3
Principal Programmer
Evolution Studios

Motorstorm: Apocalypse

Playstation 3
Lead Game Programmer
Evolution Studios

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift

Playstation 3
AI Programmer
Evolution Studios

Perfect Dark Zero

Xbox 360
Multiplayer AI Programmer
Rare

Conker Live and Reloaded

Xbox
Multiplayer AI Programmer
Rare

Skills

• Working with and creating in-house engines and tools
• Game technology
• Gameplay systems
• Unreal Engine
• Unity
• C++
• C#
• VR
• AI
• Data pipelines
• Tools
• Continuous integration
• Plastic SCM
• Perforce
• Team management
• Studio management