Truman Costello

Truman Costello

Computer Science, Game Development, Mathematics @ USC

About Me

Currently, I am a third-year bachelors student in Computing Science (Games) and Applied & Computational Mathematics at the University of Southern California. My interests lie in engine programming, including but not limited to real-time rendering, animation programming, tooling, and networking. I've worked as a Software Engineer at Keysight Technologies and been done a Software Engineering mentorship at Microsoft, but hope to break into the film and game industry. I'm currently working on a project focused on bringing applications of machine learning to education. Apart from school, I take care of my dog Sloane and work as a server at Study Hall, a local off-campus restaurant.



Projects

Awoken (WIP)

April 2023 - Present

Unreal Engine 5 | Maya | Aesprite

Awoken is a psychological horror game that evolves visually, mechanically, and graphically as the player progresses from a platformer, to a top-down, to a 3D perspective. I'm currently solo developing the game.

Awoken (WIP)

AI Powered Education App (WIP)

Feb 2023 - Present

Expo (React Native) + Tauri

Education app using a stochastic shortest path algorithm for optimizing spaced repetition scheduling

Code Judge Platform

Oct. 2023 - Dec. 2023

Vue.js | Java Springboot | MySQL

Online code judge application based on C++ code input and expected console print statements

Tumbleweed

Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2022 | Prototype

Unity Universal Rendering Pipeline

Movement Based First Person Shooter

Tumbleweed

LightRide

May. 2022 - Jun. 2022 | Prototype

Unity3D

2D Physics Puzzle Game

LightRide

ColorBounce

Apr. 2021 - May 2021

Unity2D

One Button Arcade Style Game

ColorBounce

Sentiment Trading Bot

Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2021

Python | Pandas | PyTorch | PostegreSQL | AWS

LSTM recurrent neural net creating expected stock price changes based on social media sentiment around a given stock

Experience

IoT ONE

Remote | May 2021 - Jul. 2021

Figma

UX / UI Design Fellow

Microsoft

Remote | Jan. 2021 - May 2021

C++

Technical Resilience Mentee

Keysight Technologies

Santa Rosa, CA | Jan. 2019 - May 2019

C++

Telemetry Software Development Intern

Education

B.S. Computer Science (Games) | B.S. Applied & Computational Mathematics

University of Southern California | May 2025

Viterbi School of Computer Science | School of Cinematic Arts | Dornsife College of Letters Arts & Sciences

Rotary International High School Exchange Student

Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2020

양명고등학교 | 경기도 안양시

Healdsburg High School

Healdsburg, CA | Grad. Jun. 2019

Also attended (for a week) Central Catholic in Portland, OR and (freshman year) Mark Morris High School in Longview, WA