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Programmer, specialized on Unity

Job experience

• Time boundaries: January 2022 - ongoing
• Time experience: 4 years and 2 months

AppFox

• Site: https://appfox.ru/
• Time boundaries: August 2025 - ongoing
• Time experience: 7 months
• Position at work: Unity Team Lead

The company develops custom applications/games. I have developed several different projects for different clients

• I was a lead developer, managed a team of up to 6 people: assigned tasks and their completion time, checked and supplemented merge requests
• Set up work with the git repository, was responsible for the quality of the commit history
• Communicated with different departments, coordinated the requirements and work results of other departments (backend, 3D, game designers, level designers, UI artists)
• Developed the architecture of the project, in particular, created and coordinated schemes of how applications should work (Obsidian + ExcaliDraw)
• Conducted a full analysis of the technical specifications and customer requirements, estimated deadlines and compiled sprints every week for the Unity team
• I deployed game servers, set up the Environment for integration with the backend (Docker)
• Integrated game room mechanics (Mirror), including SignalR to manage rooms directly with the backend server (BestHTTP)
• Developed separate packages for the project that extend the functionality of other packages (UniRx + Mirror, VContainer + Server Assembly)
• Wrote a custom packager for Addressables, reduced the size of server builds by 3 times
• Integrated and configured Firebase, in particular for authorization and in-game analytics.
• Worked with the RuStore API, added functionality for payment operation
• Worked with Unity IAP, added functionality for the billing system

NovATrans

• Site: https://npcat.ru/
• Time boundaries: January 2022 - August 2025
• Time experience: 3 years and 8 months
• Position at work: Unity VR Developer

The company is engaged in training simulators, mainly on the subject of trains and using VR

• During my work, I rose from a student to the main Unity developer in the company, it is I who organize the architectural features of all projects.
• Acted several times as a team leader, led teams of up to 5 people
• In working practice, there have been several cases of critical optimization of developer time for several weeks due to well-made management/architectural decisions
• I am able to correctly analyze tasks, estimate deadlines, and ask the right questions about requirements and technical specifications.
• Worked with training simulators, mainly on the subject of Russian Railways
• I have extensive experience working with VR (SteamVR, OpenXR, BNG)
• I have experience porting and optimizing for mobile VR devices (Oculus, Pico)
• I was the initiator in the creation of the company’s internal libraries for simulators (Git + Gitflow + releases + documentation), which significantly accelerated the creation of all the company’s products
• Created a custom tool for designers to create (UI Toolkit + Graph View) and reproduce scripts (its own ECS), with support for multiplayer (Mirror) and full backward compatibility of all data models (Newtonsoft Json)
• I have significant experience in the introduction/support/improvement of architectures of Unity projects (Zenject, sometimes ECSLite)
• In fact, I was the company’s chief technical specialist (DevOps + code standards + integrated tests + Editor utilities)
• Worked a lot with multiplayer in Unity (Mirror)
• Created a multiplayer server from scratch (Lidgren)
• I also made audio chat from scratch (Opus C++, sound processing) for project
• I have experience in creating an open world (Addressables)
• I have experience as a Backend developer (ASP.NET, Docker, Linux)
• Made his own implementation of IK avatar for VR (Animator)
• I have experience working with really ancient projects (Unity 5.4) and the big legacy

My Projects

• AppFox (2025-2026)
  • Umnyashki School - app for studying children at age 1-3
• NovATrans (2022-2025)
  • Train MPT-4
  • Fire in train
  • Train 2ES5K
• Yandex Games (2022-2023)
  • Draw fruits!
  • Alchemy: the Sorcerers’ Table
  • You bullet? Shoot!
  • Source code - I decided to open source all code for my games
• Ludum Dare 51 (2022)
  • Game - page for game, only on Windows
  • Source code - we decided to open source all code for this game
• Play Market Games (2018-2021)
  • Gravity Balls 2
  • Gravity Balls 2: Source Code
  • Gravity Balls
  • Gravity Balls: Source Code

About me

• Russian game developer, born 2003
• Started programming for fun at the age of 11
• All of my games made with Unity, since Unity 5.3
• Study in A.S. Popov Ural Radio Engineering College
• I’m in game development professionally since 2022
• Live in Yekaterinburg near my family
• Enjoy programming experiments, music and gym

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