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Marc-Antoine Desbiens, Expert game Programmer for Hire.

Marc-Antoine Desbiens

Verified Expert in Engineering
10 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Marc-Antoine is a versatile and creative Unity programmer and game designer with 8+ years of coding experience and 5+ years of game development experience, including working on Assassin's Creed at Ubisoft and Batman at Warner Brothers Games. In the past years, Marc-Antoine has decided to become a full-time freelancer and has worked on over 20 game projects since then, including his own co-op puzzle adventure game, The Last Crystal.

Game DevelopmentC#
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Vladimir Peric, game Engineer.

Vladimir Peric

Verified Expert in Engineering
16 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Vladimir is a game developer with experience in Unity, Unreal Engine 4, game development, VFX, animation, modeling, marketing, and entrepreneurship—publishing many games. He's worked as a lead engine developer at Ubisoft and has helped create the AR/VR specialization at Toptal.

Game DevelopmentC++Virtual RealityUnreal EngineC#Software DevelopmentREST APIUnity
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Jason RT Bond, game Freelancer.

Jason RT Bond

Verified Expert in Engineering
16 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Jason has over a decade of experience in video games, virtual/augmented reality and 3D assets. He is an expert in the Unity Engine and can work with a wide variety of platforms (web, mobile, PC/Mac, game consoles). He prefers a multi-disciplinary approach—having a background in both game design and coding, as well as experience in audiovisual content creation pipelines.

Game DevelopmentUnityAndroidiOSAugmented RealityARKitMacOSVuforiaVirtual RealityC#Windows DevelopmentExtended Reality
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Romeo-Gabriel Băisan, game Freelancer.

Romeo-Gabriel Băisan

Verified Expert in Engineering
11 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Romeo is a senior software engineer with 10+ years of experience in game development. He specializes in Unity for 2D or 3D games and C# .NET for building reliable back-end services. Romeo can take ownership during development or help out in gameplay, graphics, shaders, engine, tools, AI, networking, optimization, and code architecture.

Game DevelopmentC#C++JavaScriptCSSSQLUnity
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Stephen Green, game Coder.

Stephen Green

Verified Expert in Engineering
5 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Stephen is a professional software engineer and game developer with years of experience writing code in the highly-regulated slot gaming industry. He's well-versed in C# and Unity development. He has written apps using other technologies like Windows Forms and WPF projects, front-end frameworks with JavaScript, TypeScript, and PixiJS, and has managed evaluation engines with C++ native. His background in leading teams of developers has honed his skills in project management and communication.

Game DevelopmentC#Visual Studio DevelopmentAlgorithms
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Gady Elkarif, game Engineer.

Gady Elkarif

Verified Expert in Engineering
19 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Gady is a full-stack engineer and a game developer/designer with professional experience working on enterprise and startup projects. He's passionate about learning, expanding his knowledge, building high-quality games both in Unity3D and Unreal Engine.

Game DevelopmentC#
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Sam Lucyk, game Freelancer.

Sam Lucyk

Verified Expert in Engineering
7 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Sam is an accomplished game, web, and blockchain developer with over a decade of experience. He has recently worked for more than four years as the lead developer and product lead of an edtech gaming startup, building their product from the ground up. After the company's acquisition, he managed the transition of the product before ending his time there. He currently leads a game studio focusing on Web3 game development and is eager to work on new, challenging projects and goals.

Game DevelopmentNode.jsMongoDBSolidityReact.jsWeb DevelopmentDevOpsJavaScriptAWS LambdaNFTWebGLWeb3.jsUnity
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Ranier Montalbo, Senior game Programmer and Consultant.

Ranier Montalbo

Verified Expert in Engineering
14 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Ranier is a game developer with a passion for building gameplay, content-creation tools, and automation scripts using Unity3D or native mobile platform tools. Ranier is also a web developer with experience creating enterprise apps using React and React Native, AngularJS, the Google Maps API, and back ends using Flask in Python.

Game DevelopmentNode.jsGoogle Maps DevelopmentReact.jsUnityC#React NativeJavaScriptTypeScriptFull-stackFront End
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Ali Bati, Freelance game Programmer for Hire.

Ali Bati

Verified Expert in Engineering
14 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Ali is an expert game developer with over 15 years of experience in programming and game design. He co-founded a large game development community and managed the complete release cycle and operations for several award-winning mobile F2P games, such as Almost a Hero. This game has 10+ million players worldwide, was featured by Apple and Google Play numerous times, and reached a 4.8 rating. He is an expert with Unity and loves to balance complex systems and systems design.

Game DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentC#Windows DevelopmentGitUnityWebGLiOS
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James Closs, Freelance game Engineer.

James Closs

Verified Expert in Engineering
28 Years of Experience

Game Developer

James is an award-winning digital media professional with 20+ years of experience specializing in cross-platform mobile app and game development and design using C#, Xamarin, and related technologies. James has developed apps on everything from the first Java-enabled mobile phones to contemporary game consoles and consulted at a senior level on major projects for high-profile clients, including Disney, Nokia, Cartoon Network, Open City, and Electronic Arts.

Game DevelopmentMacOSJava.NETC#
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Phil Yum, Toptal game Developer.

Phil Yum

Verified Expert in Engineering
11 Years of Experience

Game Developer

Phil has worked across many genres and has over a decade of experience in commercial mobile game development. Throughout his career, he has developed skills across all areas of game development, including engine, gameplay, animation, UI/UX, tools, and game design. Due to the nature of game development and working in tight-knit teams, Phil is an efficient and thorough developer who interfaces well with designers and understands what it takes to ship a product.

Game DevelopmentC#Visual Studio DevelopmentUnity
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Toptal gave us access to the best designers out there, saving us a lot of time and allowing us to build the best possible product.

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Toptal’s talent is really excellent. They are able to work through large business problems and code incredibly efficiently.

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The kind of people we looked for were hard to find. Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing high quality resources to bear on very short notice.

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