Vetted Unreal Engine Professionals

Oyku Yamakoglu

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Senior Game Developer specializing in interactive systems and real-time graphics

New York, NY6y exp

“Lead Programmer and Technical Artist on the 3D isometric boss-battler RPG Highrollers, where they owned core gameplay and technical architecture for an 11-person team. They stand out for building modular Unity/C# systems that improved iteration speed, plus adjacent experience in real-time vision/inference pipelines and small-scale multiplayer using Photon and Unity Netcode.”

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay/system designer who shipped an XR interactive experience (“Echoes of the Moon”), owning interaction logic, progression triggers, state management, and animation syncing through ship. Emphasizes modular component-based architecture with interfaces and data-table-driven tuning, plus strong profiling/optimization skills (refactoring Tick-heavy systems to event-driven) validated through 20–30 user playtests and mobile XR (Android) frame-budget constraints.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter who built a player-facing skill tree for a third-person shooter end-to-end (icons in Illustrator, UI animations, Blueprint behaviors, HLSL shader effects) and migrated the system from Data Assets to Data Tables to improve maintainability and designer-friendly balancing. Also implemented modular weapon logic via base classes, playtest-driven tuning, and refactored broken UI flows into a centralized UI manager with QA-focused debug unlock flags.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter/system designer with shipped experience on Killing Floor 3, owning Blueprint-driven destruction/physics props and trap features end-to-end, including replication, performance optimization, and QA workflows. Also built a one-click light auto-generation tool on Maneater that reportedly saved the lighting team hundreds of hours, and uses fast test-map prototyping to validate mechanics (e.g., movement systems on Salem).”

RAPHAEL DE MORAES

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Senior 3D Generalist and Motion Designer specializing in game engines and pipeline optimization

Manaus, AM7y exp

“Real-time VFX/shader and Unity integration specialist with experience shipping for VR and mobile hardware, including a Samsung VR product featuring a dynamic, speech-reactive character animation system. Strong focus on performance (70–90 FPS) through shader/texture optimization and hands-on tuning of Unity blend trees and animation transitions to eliminate popping and timing issues.”

Zhifang Wang

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Mid-level Game Designer specializing in narrative design and AR/VR game development

7y exp

“Game designer with hands-on UE5 Blueprint prototyping experience who built AR and VR gameplay systems end-to-end. Designed an AR dog-training game with daily-care progression and an AR heart-collection currency system, iterating via playtests to improve onboarding, spacing/balancing, and engagement; also implemented NPC interactions and minigames in a VR classroom simulator prototype.”

“Mission/narrative designer with shipped VR experience on Lone Echo II, including designing and tuning a generator mission and its transition into a branching choice/free-exploration structure. Also builds UE5 Blueprint prototypes for narrative adventure concepts ("Runt"), implementing interaction-driven cinematics and iterating on camera pacing and character writing.”

Sawyer Porte

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Junior Game Designer specializing in systems, combat, and multiplayer gameplay

3y exp

“Game economy/progression designer who owned the end-to-end progression system for an idle auto-battler (“Non-Order”), including multi-currency sources/sinks, upgrade pricing curves, and meta-progression. Uses spreadsheet modeling plus playtest/telemetry-driven iteration to address pacing and agency issues (e.g., adding a minigame, click-to-damage, and player skill tree) to reduce progression friction and improve replayability.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of social/multiplayer Unity systems, including a visual scripting tool that unlocked user-generated worlds and expanded content from 3 internal maps to dozens of player-created experiences. Has shipped across VR and mobile, worked with Photon PUN networking, and is also experimenting with LLM-powered product features via a Go/AWS backend.”