Vetted Visual Studio Professionals

Jack Oakley

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Director-level VR Game Programmer specializing in Unity and QA leadership

Austin, TX15y exp

“Unity/VR gameplay engineer who has shipped full games and built a robust coin economy + massive gear customization system (over a million combinations) backed by a cloud service. Notably discovered and fixed a severe backend security flaw by adding proper authentication (security key + OAuth2), and has hands-on VR performance optimization experience (OVR Metrics, LOD/mipmaps, imposters) plus multiplayer sports sync design using Photon PUN2.”

Roman Naumov

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in Unity/Unreal AR/VR experiences

Victoria, Canada20y exp

“Unity/C# engineer who owned an end-to-end real-time 3D product configurator at PictureThis3D, emphasizing modular data-driven architecture for performance and stability (including improved model download time and faster content updates). Also implemented on-device LLM/voice-command processing using small local models (e.g., Qwen 3.5 0.8B) and shipped Photon multiplayer systems with robust match-start/state handling.”

“Unity VR/AR developer with 10 years of experience who built a complex multiplayer online Jenga game from scratch, including VOIP and a custom physics synchronization approach to make heavy physics work smoothly online. Has also delivered VR simulation experiences for an educational institution using drone-recorded 360 video placed into a virtual cockpit flight experience (deployed directly to Quest headsets, though not launched on the Quest store).”

“Unity developer who has shipped VR games on Meta Quest/Oculus Go and demonstrates strong performance engineering for constrained hardware (multithreading, Unity Job System, Jump Point Search). Has built multiple games largely solo (e.g., Tap & Conquer), handling UI/flow, core gameplay, and save systems, and uses AI to speed up build/test/backup automation via shell scripting.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership across core game systems, multiplayer, AI/LLM integration, and cross-platform XR/mobile shipping. Particularly compelling is their combination of deep runtime optimization and systems architecture: they cut match-3 cascade frame spikes by 40-50%, eliminated a class of production race-condition bugs, and also built a local-model FastAPI-backed AI prototype with structured evaluation and cost control.”

Juan Lagisquet

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Game Designer/Unity Developer specializing in gameplay and level design

11y exp

“Senior game designer with shipped experience on Outlanders, focused on systems/economy balance, player motivation loops, and clear cross-discipline implementation. Built rapid UE5 prototypes (48-hour cycle) and iterated based on feedback—especially leveraging audio to guide players in an atmospheric horror concept. Has led design decisions under mobile performance constraints, aligning engineering/art/direction to ship a sandbox mode with acceptable entity/map limits.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong systems-level experience shipping and optimizing a mobile 6v6 FPS, including custom pooling, input, networking, and anti-cheat architecture. Stands out for combining deep performance engineering with practical AI-assisted development workflows that helped deliver a prototype in one week, plus end-to-end ownership of a separate web app built for a doctor under a tight deadline.”

Jordan Dunaway

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Game Developer specializing in gameplay systems and cross-engine development

Lenexa, KS3y exp

“Game-focused QA tester with a developer background who routinely validates builds in player-like environments (including VMs), documents test coverage rigorously, and provides high-signal bug reports with reproducible steps and video evidence. Has partnered closely with designers and engineers on issues like level-loading resource management and prioritizes defects based on player progression and immersion impact; has not shipped a AAA title.”

“Unity/C# developer with hands-on Meta Quest shipping experience from Wren Kitchens, building a VR kitchen scale visualiser and solving tricky URP/HDRP cross-pipeline rendering issues by creating internal shader/asset management utilities. Also has solo Unity game experience including an Android/Google Play release and game jam prototyping, plus side-project work using Python/PyTorch for predictive modeling.”

“Full-stack engineer who has delivered production customer analytics/dashboard features using Next.js App Router + TypeScript on the frontend and Java Spring Boot microservices on the backend. Demonstrates strong production ownership (monitoring latency/error rates/adoption) plus hands-on performance work across React rendering and Postgres query/index optimization, and has implemented Temporal-like durable workflows with retries and idempotency.”

Gautam Agrawal

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and applied LLM/NLP

IN, USA4y exp

“Applied LLMs to classify long nonprofit mission statements into 8 segments without labeled data, using an ensemble of clustering/embedding methods plus zero-shot RoBERTa/BART and a Tree-of-Thought prompting pipeline with LLM-as-judge evaluation (Gemma). Also built LangChain/LlamaIndex agentic RAG workflows including a text-to-SQL data analysis assistant grounded on DB schema with retries and performance optimizations on an HPC cluster.”

Matyas Gonczol

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Senior Unity & XR Developer specializing in VR/AR/MR and immersive educational apps

Budapest, Hungary10y exp

“Unity developer with deep hands-on experience building a tricky 2.5D shoot-'em-up collision system that reconciled 2D gameplay constraints with 3D world movement and mixed orthographic/perspective camera math. Also implemented LAN multiplayer for a Monopoly thesis using Unity Legacy Networking (NetworkView/RPC) and has production exposure to Photon PUN; emphasizes clean, optimized code and structured ownership with code reviews.”

Guilherme Itabayana Braga da Fonseca

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in VR/AR simulations and educational games

Lisbon, Portugal20y exp

“Unity developer with a standout graduation project implementing a two-dimension platformer mechanic (collider/physics switching plus shader-driven visual changes). In a recent role, used Photon to connect two Meta Quest users in a virtual call and integrated an Android companion app to provide GPS coordinates for a solar plant maintenance guidance use case.”

“Game designer who owned and shipped an end-to-end tabletop RPG mode (UltraMex Revolution) featuring journey/battle phases and a chess-inspired card/dice combat system, iterating heavily from playtests by adding a written campaign and role-based abilities to improve pacing and tactics. Also shipped a web application feature for exploring Indigenous tribes in North America, tackling difficult data sourcing and measuring impact via application views.”

Manas Agarwal

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python APIs, React, and cloud AI integrations

Superior, CO2y exp

“Customer-facing software engineer who builds and deploys practical AI/RAG solutions (e.g., an AI assistant for searching billing PDFs) by deeply understanding support workflows and iterating with users. Demonstrates strong production instincts—quickly stabilizing peak-traffic API timeouts with caching/background jobs, then implementing durable fixes with proper monitoring and maintainable code practices.”

Kinsey Nietzsche

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Senior Software Developer specializing in Unity game development and AR/VR

Bratislava, Slovakia14y exp

“Unity/VR gameplay programmer who built a gesture-driven stationary locomotion/teleport feature for a VR tennis eSports title at VRML, enabling players to reposition to predicted ball impact without using controller buttons. Has multiplayer/networking exposure via Photon Quantum and Photon Fusion (BadFly) and works as a generalist solo developer leveraging AI tools for rapid asset creation and code cleanup.”