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Shai Kalev

Principal Unity Engineer specializing in gameplay, mobile, and XR real-time systems

IsraelLead Software Engineer (Contract)23 years experiencePrincipalVideo GamesXR (AR/VR)Mobile Applications
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Unity engineer with deep gameplay AI and multiplayer networking experience: built lethal, squad-coordinated NPC combat AI using behavior trees/blackboards, and re-architected a PvP title from Photon-style peer networking to a server-authoritative FishNet dedicated-server model with PlayFab matchmaking. Also integrated multiple open-source LLM pipelines (3D asset generation via Trellis, TTS, music) into dockerized, autoscaling cloud endpoints and shipped an iOS + visionOS/Vision Pro experience featuring BCI-driven input and on-device TensorFlow inference.

Experience

Lead Software Engineer (Contract)DreamForge Games
Principal EngineerArctop
Director of Engineering — Sole EngineerExploding Tuba Studios
Senior Game DeveloperIlyon Dynamics
Software EngineerPipeworks Software
Software EngineerTrilogy Studios
Software EngineerMass Media
Earlier RolesTTI-Telecom
Earlier RolesVentura Communications

Education

The Art Institute of California, San Franciscobachelor, Visual & Game Programming (2008)

Key Strengths

  • End-to-end gameplay AI ownership in Unity (behavior-tree NPC combat with patrol/alert layers and squad coordination via shared blackboard)
  • Productionizing open-source LLM pipelines into scalable cloud endpoints (Python + Docker + RunPod) with attention to cold starts, latency, and cost
  • Multiplayer networking re-architecture from peer/RPC model to server-authoritative dedicated servers (FishNet) for competitive PvP
  • Strong debugging/observability approach for live networking issues using server/client logs, timestamps, and input tracing
  • Cross-platform XR/mobile shipping experience (iOS + visionOS/Vision Pro) including novel BCI-driven input and on-device ML inference

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Languages

English

Skills

UnityC#iOSAndroidSwiftKotlinJavaDockerGenerative AINetworkingGraphQLREST APIsAWSC++Python