Shui Shan 💫
software engineer, game designer & developer 👩🏻💻🎮
Passionate about engineering, building games & apps. Seeking ventures to learn and collaborate with people!
Professional Experience 💼
Sole web engineer for a live-service game reaching 2,000 concurrent players. Launched Steam account-linking, payments, and a CMS-driven cosmetic shop (50% revenue increase). Cut operational costs 20% by migrating players to Steam. Ensured 100% uptime for sponsored events with 10,000 concurrent users.
Delivered key initiatives in the Fortnite.com rebuild for the UEFN launch — Remix.js framework migration with 10-language localisation, a Cloudflare Workers caching system (partnering with Cloudflare to shape their product roadmap), and an image optimisation layer that cut page load times by 20%.
Built an extensible ChatOps platform with Docker microservices that unified monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting — reducing average incident response time by 20%. Created an enterprise customer feedback flow bridging Sky's portal to Jira, reducing issue resolution time by 30%.
Led the digital transformation of a property management business — replacing paper and spreadsheet workflows with automated software. Built a unified web portal centralising business operations and migrated company data to structured databases.
Work Highlights 🌟
A few things I'm proud of from the above.
Jitter TV · Steam Payments 🎮
Sole web engineer for a live-service game — launched Steam payments & cosmetic shop, driving a 50% revenue increase
Fortnite.com · Caching
Flexible Cloudflare Workers caching system for Fortnite.com — partnered with Cloudflare engineers, shaping their product roadmap
Sky · ChatOps Platform 💬
Extensible Docker microservices platform unifying monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting — 20% faster incident response
Independent Work 🚀
🎮 Independent Game Studio Owner
Jun 2019 – Present
Founded and ran an independent game studio, shipping cross-platform games to an international audience. Generated five-figure annual net revenue, reached 1M monthly active users and 4,000 concurrent players. Top 25 Trending on YouTube Gaming, streamed by creators with multi-million subscriber audiences.
🎵 MetaMerch · Universal Music Group
Nov 2023 – Jun 2024
Software & game development contract for UMG — built a virtual store from concept to launch, hosting events with 3,000 concurrent users and iterating on UX from in-game analytics.
📊 Game Analytics Platform
GitHub →Jan 2024 – Feb 2025
Built a cost-efficient analytics platform for free-to-play games with feature flags, scalable architecture, and actionable insights without MAU-based billing. Gained commercial interest from collaborating developers.
Personal Projects
Game Analytics Portal 🎮
Custom solution for feature flags, tracking & analysing player engagement, retention and monetization metrics in games
Mangui 🏡
Tenancy & Property Management web app
Chatty Chef 🧑🍳
CMS-powered Restaurant website for online ordering
Skills 🛠️
🎓 University of Surrey · First Class Honours in Computer Science