Waleed Ahmed

About

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.

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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