Cole Allen
Game dev, Engineer, Scientist, Teacher
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

Mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.

Experience

Teacher (Part-Time)
C2 Education · Part-time
Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Indie Game Developer
Self-employed
Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos
San Gabriel, CA

Designed and built the C++-based video game Bohrdom™, including several custom musical pieces and over seven hundred and fifty custom graphics
Formulated and wrote Bohrdom's advanced 2D elastic collision physics engine, including custom collision detection functions and the capability to accurately resolve rotational components of collisions

Bohrdom has been successfully released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/

Currently developing a second game, working name "First Law".

Mechanical Engineer
IJK Controls
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos
South Pasadena

Reworked existing two-axis gimbal design to fit specifications of new project by redesigning relevant parts and assemblies via SolidWorks, passing internal and external PDRs and CDRs, and creating GD&T part drawings
Worked with vendors and senior engineers to quote and manufacture parts on time, within tolerances, and within budget
Maintained and improved existing Android-based GUI for a four-axis gimbal, adding new input drivers, extensively reworking UI, improving documentation of critical features, and addressing long-standing requests and bugs
Built and maintained a laser communications system’s current Web-based GUI using Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Python, Flask, fixing vast majority of issues, requests, and bugs tracked via GitHub
Performed modal analysis on optical bench mounts in ANSYS, refining client's designs based on the analysis
Designed a mechanical actuator for a client's optical bench by creating multiple prototypes, passing design review, and preparing GD&T drawings of associated parts

Teaching Assistant
Caltech
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017 · 10 mos
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Aided students, leading Arduino-based lectures on two occasions
Ran experiments and helped design course material

Mechanical Engineering Intern
Fluid Synchrony
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 · 3 mos
Pasadena

Designed a 3D-printed human-wearable case for medical control system, passing short design review
Designed and extensively tested multiple electrode fixture concepts along with 3D-printed equipment that made fixture creation significantly faster and more reliable

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Student
JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 · 3 mos
4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109

Added modeling capability for planets around several previously excluded stars.
Updated the most recent version of the model with new chemical reaction data.
Identified multiple sources of discrepancies between two versions of the model.

Education

Caltech
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering
Sep 2013 – Jun 2017
Grade: 3.0/4.0

Activities and societies: Caltech Christian Fellowship, Caltech Nerf Club

California State University-Dominguez Hills
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
Aug 2022 – May 2025
Grade: 3.9/4.0

(https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-allen-003804b7/)