The People Behind Unity

Joachim Ante

CTO and co-founder (German)

Joachim was the creator of Unity's core and still leads the development effort. In his spare time, Joe enjoys horseback riding, acrobatics, diving from bridges, and driving big cars.

Tom Higgins

Product Evangelist (American)

Tom's experience with computers started at a young age when his parents purchased an Apple II+ for their home, setting into motion a passion for computers and software development. That passion found an outlet when he was hired by Macromedia. After nearly a decade working on Director and the Shockwave Player, Tom has now joined the Unity team.
When not at work, you'll find him on the road traveling or at the track racing motorcycles. Tom is based in San Francisco.

Aras Pranckevičius

Code Chef (Lithuanian)

Aras cooks rendering and Windows-related things. Ideas, designs and key presses get mixed into delicious software. That's a fancy way of saying "lead graphics programmer", apparently.
Aras has been awarded by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional in the area of DirectX and has published articles in the ShaderX book series.

Sten Selander

Business Developer (Swedish)

Sten is the co-founder of several companies within the interactive media space, and is experienced in business development services and handling diligence and strategies on management level. Additionally he's managed large scale EU projects and been responsible for innovations processes between digital industry and research.

Steffen Toksvig

Senior Software Developer (Danish)

Steffen has extensive experience in games and application development as well as in management on different levels. He has worked 6 years for the AAA developer IO Interactive as a Tools Developer, Lead Programmer, CTO and member of the board of directors. During this period, he worked on the Hitman series, Kane & Lynch and Freedom Fighters.

Graham Dunnett

Director for Testing, Support and Documentation (Brit)

Graham runs the team helping customers and making sure that Unity works as expected. He has worked in the games middleware industry for 12 years. He has a PhD in 3d graphics hardware, and taught himself 6502 assembler on an Acorn Atom when he was 12 years old. When not testing Unity or helping customers Graham loves photography and being a new dad.

Lárus Ólafsson

Network Programmer (Icelandic)

Lárus specializes in multiplayer networking, encompassing everything from NAT punchthrough to MMO scalability. He finished his Master's Thesis implementing and describing Unity's multiplayer components.

Rytis Bieliūnas

Windows Developer (Lithuanian)

Just loves programming. Started his career at his mother's workplace (which was the only place where he had access to a computer).

Ethan Vosburgh

Asset Maestro (American)

Ethan has worked on all current Unity demos and is now working on internal projects. He holds a fine arts degree in Digital Media from the San Francisco Art Institute. As an undergraduate he studied generative art as well as 3D modeling/animation at Pixar University. He was also involved in San Francisco's emerging VJ scene in the late 90s.

Keli Hlodversson

Master Tools Developer (Icelandic)

Keli has extensive experience developing and architecting web applications, user applications and application frameworks. Being a master programmer, Keli develops in almost any computer language, and for multiple platforms. Keli's passion is finding elegant solutions to complex problems.

Søren Christiansen

Audio Developer (Danish)

Søren is working on our upcoming audio features. Watch the blogs for more info.

Renaldas Zioma

iPhone Developer (Lithuanian)

Renaldas' passion is getting code screaming fast on interesting devices, such as the PSP, the PS3, and now the iPhone. His previous job was coding on Battlefield in Stockholm, and he's now relocated to Copenhagen.

Joe Santos

Sales Manager (American)

From console game development to managing online casual game production, Joe brings 18+ years experience from the interactive industry to Unity Technologies. He has hands-on and practical game development experience to draw-from as he's filled many of the roles required to concept, develop, and ship fun and exciting games to market.
Favorite Quote: “You'll never get anywhere in life playing those, those, video games…” ~Joe's Mom

Mantas Puida

Mono Developer (Lithuanian)

Mantas currently tames monkeys (Spanish: Mono) to live in peace with platforms like the iPhone, but he can write code for almost everything that shows signs of intelligence. Usually one can recognize Mantas as the guy carrying the big camera, and on rare occasions even taking pictures with it.

Caitlyn Kloecker

Quality Assurance Engineer (American)

Caitlyn was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended University of California at Santa Cruz to earn a degree in Motion Graphics. She's now living in Copenhagen with her husband Tomas, a German mathematician. Unity is her biggest passion along with making indie games and electronic music. She's done work as a 2D animator, a lead artist, a developer of CD-ROM interfaces for major magazines, a prototype designer for casino slot machines and yes, as a QA engineer.

Jeff Aydelotte

Demo Developer (American)

Jeff is an intern currently working on the demo team. He is a student at The Art Institute of California majoring in Visual and Game Programming. Full Moon Manor, one of his student projects developed using Unity, was a finalist at the ScreenBurn competition at the South by Southwest festival. Jeff has the ability to work on both programming and art, which allows him to work on every aspect of the demo development process.

Emil Johansen

Quality Assurance Engineer (Danish)

With a background in large scale game and game AI development, Emil (aka AngryAnt on the forums) joins the QA team after working on AI middleware solutions for Unity and being an active member of the community.

Lucas Meijer

Senior Software Developer (Dutch)

The last ten years before joining Unity, Lucas was a freelance game programmer, making sure the tech behind many game productions was in good shape, and artists had a smooth workflow into their game engine. He worked on titles for Lego, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Lego, Adobe and many others. When relaxing, he's usually playing Ultimate Frisbee, or thinking about sushi. Or both.

Juan Sebastian Muñoz

Technical Writer (Colombian)

Juan's experience with computers started at a young age when his father took old motherboards, hard drives and monitors home so he could disassemble them and play with them. That made Juan get a great passion for computers and how they work. This combined, with his love for video games and the low level programming, made him focus on Computer Graphics during his college years. Juan Studied his bachelor degree on Computer Science at EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia, and when he is not programming games, he is playing them. He also loves to go out and drink beers with friends and travel around the world.

Jonas Echterhoff

Programmer (German)

Jonas has taught himself programming on a Mac II when he was 11 years old, and has created several successful Mac shareware games in the past, financing his life as a CS university student. He has been working on various parts of the Unity engine ever since the original release of version 1.0, and is now working full time as a core engine developer.

Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen

Developer (Danish)

Has a ph.d. in Computer Science and has spent his time working on database internals and systems. He works on some comming online features in the world of unity. He is a maritime nutcase and prefers to spend his spare time in, on and around the sea either diving, sailing, kitesurfing or rowing a kayak.

Joe Robins

Technical Support Specialist (English)

Joe jumped across the sea to join Unity in Denmark, His education focused on 3d art and Game Design at the University of Teesside. Some time after that, Joe landed a job using Unity where he became an active member of the community and worked on various projects, from jet ski games with purple water to a building familiarisation tool for Greater Manchester Police HQ. He has come to Unity with his broad knowledge of the toolset in order to provide tech support for the ever expanding user-base.

Andy Stark

Community Management (English)

Andy was forged in the cold of England's grimmest holiday resort, Blackpool, and would not have survived the ordeal without the resourcefulness of a Swiss Army knife and the tenacity of a Jack Russell terrier. Now, the self-styled Swiss Army Jack Russell is turning his experience in tech support and programming to the questions of Unity users. The accumulated filth of all their bugs and kludges will foam up about their forums, and all the coders and level designers will look up and shout "save us" - and he'll whisper "no"...