Truman Costello

Truman Costello

Computer Science, Game Development, Mathematics @ USC

About Me

I am in my last year as a 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 VFX, real-time rendering, animation programming, and tooling for all of the above. 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 at Allison B. Margolin, PLC, a criminal defense firm, where I've started developing internal legal software for consent based digital forensics and general quality of life improvements. Apart from work and school, I'm working on two games of my own and am a part of a stealth startup.



Projects

Allison B. Margolin, PLC

Present

React (Astro) | OSINT Forenics

Digital Forensics, Legal Writing, Web Development

Allison B. Margolin, PLC

WIP

Present

Expo (React Native) + Tauri | Unreal Engine | Maya

Various projects I'm actively working on completing in my free time when I get back from work/school

WIP

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

Allison B. Margolin, PLC

Los Angeles, CA | July 2024 - Present

Legal Writing

Personal Assistant

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