Brett Kercher
Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Kercher is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience, currently building backend and tooling at Unity Technologies with a strong blend of DevOps and game-development expertise. Self-taught in 7th grade and a UT Austin CS graduate (3.84 GPA), he thrives on solving difficult problems and continuous learning across full-stack and game domains. He has contributed to Unity's unity-cache-server, implementing a low-memory cleanup algorithm, reliability manager changes, and enhanced logging for tricky connection errors—demonstrating attention to performance and operational robustness. Prior roles at Certain Affinity and internships at Hudl and Unity give him practical studio and tooling experience that informs his pragmatic engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.84 GPA, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.84 GPA at The University of Texas at AustinMansfield High School
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Github Skills (12)
cachemanager10
javascript10
caching10
node-js10
javascripts10
performance-optimization10
testing9
error-handling9
devops8
ci-cd7
cicd7
cd7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/unity-cache-server
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Unity CacheServer optimized for multi-client local networks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brett contributed to optimizing the Unity Cache Server's functionality, focusing on memory usage and timestamp comparisons in the cache cleanup process. They implemented a low-memory cleanup algorithm and added options to configure it. The user also integrated reliability manager changes and added tests to improve the server's reliability. Furthermore, they addressed potential connection issues by adding extra logging for ECONNRESET errors.
multi-clientunityoptimizedcacheunity3d
BrettKercher/gitTestProject
Oct 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:84 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 11 months
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