Oleksii Hafiatullov

Oleksii Hafiatullov currently serves as a Technical Artist at Sharkmob, starting in February 2024. Previously, Oleksii worked as a Procedural Technical Artist at GSC Game World from December 2021 to November 2024, focusing on developing tools and scripts with Python, Houdini, and Unreal Engine to enhance productivity in Level Design. Prior roles include VFX Artist at Snap Inc. (April 2021 - November 2021), where Oleksii created shaders and procedural animations for mobile devices, and VFX Houdini Artist at Animagrad (September 2020 - September 2021), where realistic fluid simulations were produced. Early experience includes creating procedural assets as a Houdini Artist at POSTMODERN (April 2019 - August 2020) and directing for the state Ukrainian Channel (February 2014 - October 2018). Oleksii holds a Master's degree in Automation System of Electric Drives from the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute," completed in 2006.