Engineering Leader
Services
Leadership Coaching
Mentorship
Elite Engineering Teams
Product Strategy
Roadmap and Milestones
Developer Relations and Customer Engagement
Tools
Unity
GitHub
Jira
Slack
ChatGPT
Visual Studio Code
Experience
Feb 2024 – Present
Unity Technologies ApS
Senior Engineering Manager
Leading the Multiplayer Engine organisation, a group of twenty eight engineers and three engineering managers as direct reports.
Implement and optimise Agile processes and align teams.
Plan and drive an engineering Jira Plan roadmap.
Worked with QA to establish Test Plans for upcoming feature development resulting in increased overall test coverage by 55%, ensuring critical functionality coverage reached 90%, leading to a ~33% reduction in post-release incidents since February 2024.
Leverage Root Cause Analysis and Bisection methods to improve regression metrics. Regressions escaped to users improved by 73% since February 2024.
The number of total regressions was reduced by 94.29%.
Implement Bug quality KPIs. Resulting in a 100% reduction in high-severity defects over six months.
Raise the bar with quality standards throughout the team's software cycle and release processes. Incidents in triage for ten days or more reduced by 100% over 12 months.
Reduced total backlog by 60% to a more manageable size.
Proactively monitor and mitigate risks, capacity, and resource needs in alignment with objectives.
Direct teams to be collaborative by default with shared initiatives. Improved morale by celebrating wins and recognising great work.
Experienced handling ambiguity, shifting priorities, organisational challenges, and capacity restrictions.
Planned and delivered the Multiplayer Engine and Services end-to-end solution release for the Unity 6 engine version released in October 2024.
May 2023 – Feb 2024
Unity Technologies ApS
Senior Engineering Manager
Established the Netcode Engine Team for Unity, combining two separate teams and setting a new direction.
Overcame organisation challenge by combining two separate teams and setting a new technical direction.
Defined and set up a new twelve month engineering roadmap.
Analysed technical debt and moved the team into a more prudent mindset, unburdening the team.
Implemented collaboration methods to drive teamwork and peer reviews.
Implement agile methodologies to improve team velocity and predictability.
Released multiple patches and minor updates to Netcode software packages, including feature improvements, countless bug fixes and documentation improvements.
Improved team composition, teamwork, trust, and processes. This resulted in a morale boosting environment.
October 2020 – May 2023
Unity Technologies ApS
Senior Engineering Manager
Managed managers in globally distributed teams as part of Unity's business revival of Multiplayer
Found and led the team that developed Boss Room, a multiplayer game sample educating tens of thousands of developers on creating multiplayer games across platforms.
Establish Unity's first open-source 'docs-like-code' SDK documentation, setting a new standard for Unity’s user-centered documentation.
July 2017 – October 2020
Unity Technologies ApS
Manager, Solution Engineering, EMEA
Led a team that successfully onboarded hundreds of gaming studios to Unity, driving tens of millions in annual recurring revenue.
Define KPIs and metrics to maximise impact with customer interactions.
Create new revenue streams by collaborating with Legal, achieve a read-only Source Code engine license, and help address customer pain points. Resulting in a multi-million dollar revenue stream.
Establish strong relationships with key clients (e.g., King, Supercell, Ubisoft) at the CTO/Technical Director level.
Implement the Solution Selling philosophy across Unity's Sales organisation, transforming customer engagement approaches and resulting in improved customer relations.
Review and ensure accuracy in business service agreements and legal contracts, leading to a measurable increase in deal velocity and customer satisfaction.
April 2013 - July 2017
Unity Technologies ApS
Technical Account Manager
Led technical discussions with developers, artists, CTOs, and Tech Directors across EMEA and North America, supporting product evaluations and significantly driving adoption of Unity's game engine software.
December 2009 – April 2013
Unity Technologies ApS
Test Engineer
Testing & Release Management
Led testing and release management for Unity's WebPlayer plugin, achieving a 96% install success rate on custom install pages developed for clients like EA, Facebook, Nickelodeon, Codemasters, and NASA JPL.