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Pawel Podzus
Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR/VR content pipelines and gameplay systems
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Unity VR developer with long-standing experience shipping on the Oculus/Meta Quest ecosystem (dating back to before the Facebook acquisition). Recently drove a high-stakes OpenXR migration for a live service app using release branches, QA, feature flags, and staged rollouts. On Border Bots VR, owned the robot character editor and major performance work, including a manual scene optimizer to reduce overdraw and enable higher-fidelity set pieces.
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- Shipped Unity VR titles in the Oculus/Meta ecosystem (pre-Facebook acquisition)
- Led OpenXR transition for a live service app with low tolerance for errors
- Release management discipline: QA + backend flags + staged rollout with community monitoring
- Deep VR optimization expertise (manual scene optimizer; significant overdraw reduction)
- Built core gameplay tooling (robot character editor) on Border Bots VR
- Uses AI to accelerate delivery (Play Store porting, CI/CD, build automation research)
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