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Jack Oakley
Director-level VR Game Programmer specializing in Unity and QA leadership
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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.
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Key Strengths
- Shipped end-to-end coin earning/spending + large-scale gear customization system in Unity
- Designed item architecture with base class + child classes/components to support many item variants (skins, colors, blendshapes) while protecting data integrity
- Identified and remediated critical backend security vulnerability; implemented authentication using security key and OAuth2
- VR performance debugging using OVR Metrics; optimized scene via LOD/mipmaps/texture reductions and imposters
- Multiplayer sports networking design for fairness/responsiveness using possession-based sync ownership in Photon PUN2
- Cross-discipline technical constraint setting (texture sizing/limits, logging rules) to hit standalone VR performance and size targets
Reference Highlights
- Significant shipped contributions across two games
- Strong multiplayer networking expertise
- Owns systems end-to-end (implementation through post-ship support)
- Extensible, forward-thinking engineering approach
- Highly proficient C# scripter
- Fast learner
- Excellent gameplay/system design fundamentals
- Player-experience focused
- Thinks through edge cases proactively
- Avoids race conditions in multiplayer interactions
- Thorough in development and QA
- Top-tier QA skills
- Effective at diagnosing issues quickly
- Delivers clean, maintainable fixes
- Improved performance and reduced networking costs
- Able to modernize legacy codebases
- Strong cross-discipline bridge between QA and development
- Collaborates effectively with art due to some art skills
- Can independently implement new AI behaviors
- Builds internal productivity/debugging tools
- Capable of building a successful multiplatform game solo
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