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Caryl Atienza

Esports

For 5 years I designed for esports: tournament graphics, team and caster branding, and broadcast assets for Tencent Games, ONIC, TNC and the MPL, seen by audiences in the hundreds of thousands.

See the design side on Behance
In front of the MPL Philippines stage backdrop, holding a staff badge
Playoffs social graphic open in Photoshop on a laptop
MPL Philippines team on stage with the trophy before the playoffs
MPL Philippines Season 15 badge held up in the arena
PKL media badge held in front of the match stage

Curious

Somewhere between deadlines I got curious about how the things I was designing for actually worked. So I started building them.

Desk with After Effects open on a GBuddy animation and the design on a second monitor
Laptop open on a Discord bot during a crowded hackathon
Presenting a Discord bot build on stage, with the pipeline on the screen behind

Now

Today I’m a software engineer intern at ED3N, building agentic workflows, and shipping SAM and ReadiLY with the same eye I used on broadcast.

The work changed.The standard didn’t.

Background

Caryl Joy A. Atienza, in Manila.

School
BS Information Technology at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, 2024–2028. President’s Lister. Before university, BNHS – Regional Science High School for MIMAROPA in Bansud, Oriental Mindoro, 2018–2024. G12 final grade 96, and a Leadership Award.
Design
Five years of freelance and in-house graphic design, mostly esports. Two stints at Tencent Games, plus ONIC Philippines, TNC Pro Team, MPL Philippines Season 15, Hybrid Realm, and broadcast and shoutcaster brands. Video editing is how the TikTok half started.
Engineering
Since 2024. Interning at ED3N on agentic workflows with Claude, building ReadiLY, and running SAM. Certification work so far: Google Associate Cloud Engineer, in progress, and the AWS AI Practitioner Challenge.