Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Profile

Expert in Unity with 15 years of experience in video games. Creator of Unity assets, including Curvy Splines (10,000 sales). I support studios in the development of games and tools, as well as in managing development teams. I also teach Unity at Isart Digital Paris.

Background

I started my career in Facebook game development, where I held the roles of Full Stack Developer and then Lead Developer. This experience gave me a global vision of the game production cycle.

Subsequently, a game designer and I embarked on the indie adventure. We developed a prototype of a 3D racing game on Unity, where I worked on the 3Cs, the track editor, and the multiplayer mode.

Due to lack of funding, this prototype did not lead to a final game, but this experience led me to create Unity assets.

Under the name ToolBuddy, I have published several Unity assets, covering various areas such as automatic game optimization and procedural generation of 3D models. These assets have received an average rating of 4.8/5.

In parallel, I work as a freelancer for game development and the creation of production tools.

I also teach Unity game development at Isart Digital Paris. I mainly teach Visual Scripting there, but also tools like Shader Graph, AI Navigation, and Cinemachine.

Links

Website:

toolbuddy.net

Unity Asset Store Profile:

assetstore.unity.com/publishers/304

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 15km), Chantilly (up to 20km)

Divers Clients
Freelance Developer
September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
Carrying out missions including:

· Generative AI Engineering
o Client: chat-investigation.ai | Montreuil, France
o Development, for an investigation game, of NPC image variations based on their emotions.
o Consulting on the choice and use of LLM models for dialogue generation.
o Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Core, LLM, text-to-image.

· Unity Tool Development
o Client: Spuree Labs Inc | Los Angeles, USA
o Development of a Unity client for a 3D model generation solution, implementing user authentication, data management, and 3D model rendering.
o Technologies: C#, Unity, OpenUSD, OAuth, REST API.

· Unity Game Development
o Client: F.E. | Hamburg, Germany
o Development of a Max Payne 1-style camera for an independent TPS game.
o Technologies: C#, Unity, Splines.
Unity 3D LLM ASP.NET Core API OAuth2
ToolBuddy
Independent Developer
December 2017 - Today (8 years and 6 months)
Creation and publication of commercial and open-source software under a personal brand, primarily focused on the video game sector. Over 10,000 sales on the Unity Asset Store (with an average rating of 4.8/5) and over 95 stars on GitHub.

Among the projects completed:

· Generative AI Engineering
o Development of an offline voice input application, based on OpenAI's Whisper model.
o Technologies: C#, WPF, .NET Core, Whisper, Python.

· Unity Mobile Development
o Development of an augmented reality application for visualizing printable models.
o Technologies: C#, Unity, AR, UI Toolkit, Android.

· Unity Asset Development
o Development of Unity assets covering features such as procedural object generation, automatic code optimization, and visual effects creation.
o Development of tools and websites for documentation and customer support for these assets.
o Technologies: C#, CIL, Unity, Node.js, Python, WebGL, MySQL, PHP.
Unity 3D Python Augmented Reality Node.js WPF
El Hadri Akram
Indie Game Developer
VIDEO GAMES AND ANIMATION
January 2016 - December 2019 (3 years and 11 months)
Casablanca, Morocco
· Development of a 3D racing game prototype using Unity, in collaboration with a game designer.

· Key features: 3Cs, multiplayer, track editor.
Unity 3D C# .NET Prototype Gameplay Programming