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Waleed Ahmed
Senior Game Engineer specializing in Unity/Unreal and AR/VR multiplayer
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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.
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Key Strengths
- Shipped Unity titles on Meta Quest and Oculus Go
- Platform-specific VR optimization for constrained hardware (textures/models/code) to maintain stable FPS
- Performance-focused engineering using multithreading for heavy online/server data flows
- Algorithmic optimization for pathfinding (Jump Point Search) and parallelization (Unity Job System)
- End-to-end solo Unity development: modular planning, UI/menus/flow, core gameplay, and early save-system integration
- Uses AI to accelerate automation (shell scripts for tests/backups/builds) with validation and iterative fixes
Reference Highlights
- Deep understanding of architecture and optimization
- Improves gameplay quality and player experience
- Saves time and resources through strong development approach
- Thrives in agile environments
- Minimizes time wastage during development
- Broad technology knowledge that improves collaboration
- Exceptional Unity and C# expertise (among the best the reference has seen)
- Continuously learning and staying up to date with emerging technology
- Leads cross-team discussions
- Strong mediator in cross-department conflicts
- Explains complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Takes feedback well and returns stronger
- Improves at an unparalleled speed
- Performs even better under big challenges
- Excellent programmer
- Strong systems architect
- Plans and executes gameplay features with scalability and robustness in mind
- High attention to detail
- Delivers polished work
- Built an end-to-end live data pipeline used in a live broadcast setting
- Work was reliable at very large scale (broadcast to 200M+ viewers) without issues
- Good flexibility when priorities do not shift wildly
- Positive cross-functional collaboration
- Goes out of the way to ensure everything fits together
- Concise and effective communication
- Continuously strives to grow
- Often one step ahead of the curve
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