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Toby Jones
Senior Unity Engineer specializing in VR/AR and game systems
Senior Engineer17 years experienceSeniorVideo GamesVirtual RealityAugmented Reality
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Unity generalist and lead engineer with shipped Meta Quest VR experience, including leading the refactor of BoxVR into FitXR (subscription multi-studio fitness app) and running the core tech team. Also built and shipped a mobile wingsuit game (Wingsuit Pro) with one artist that reached #1 in Sports in 8 regions, demonstrating strong gameplay iteration and performance optimization expertise.
Experience
Senior EngineerPerchang Games
Senior Frontend DeveloperOvation Studios (Ioconic)
Lead EngineerFitXR
Senior Unity Devleoper – FreelanceFreelance
Unity DeveloperHeadcast Labs
Web & Unity Developer – FreelanceFreelance
Unity DeveloperSwipe Entertainment
Web Developer3GoWest
C++ DeveloperBlitz Games Studios
Education
University of Leicesterbachelor, Archaeology
University of Bathmaster, Computer Science
Key Strengths
- Shipped Unity VR title on Meta Quest; led refactor from BoxVR into FitXR subscription fitness app
- Lead engineer who architected key systems and ran the core tech team
- Source control leadership, including Plastic SCM to Perforce migration with documentation and org-wide support
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, triage, and task distribution across teams
- Solo/near-solo Unity developer; shipped Wingsuit Pro with a small team (one artist)
- Achieved #1 Sports game ranking in 8 regions worldwide (Wingsuit Pro)
- Deep mobile performance optimization (lighting/shadows, textures, rig/bones, scalable settings) to maintain smooth framerates
Reference Highlights
Strongly Recommended
- Invaluable contributor to projects
- Effective in individual contributor, team member, and team lead roles
- Very effective at responding to feedback
- Able to redirect effort and timelines based on feedback
- Leads team effectively through changes
- High capability in Unity and C#
- Resolves many project problems/tasks
- Performs well in multidisciplinary projects
- Rapidly incorporates designer feedback
- Responds well to mentoring and shows growth as programmer and team leader
- incredibly strong impact from the start
- very smart
- provides concise solutions to difficult challenges
- strong communication with designers
- fast execution
- highly knowledgeable with tools
- effective at prototyping to validate ideas and improve decisions
- very professional
- adapts easily in agile/live environments
- positive attitude when priorities change
- proficient in Unity and C#
- builds robust solutions quickly
- deep understanding of systems
- go-to person for technical challenges
- helps other developers
- builds internal tools to improve team efficiency
- became main collaboration point for the dev team
- easygoing and well-regarded by team
- highly trusted by artists and designers
- one of the best developers the reference has worked with
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