Alex Kerfoot
Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kerfoot is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15+ years of experience building game engines, full-stack web and mobile apps, and production systems at companies from EA Maxis to Unity. He combines deep systems design and performance optimization skills in C/C++ with modern stacks (JavaScript, Python) and hands-on iOS development. As a founding engineer at mappable he developed product instincts alongside low-level engineering rigor, and his studio background gives him a strong grasp of real-time systems and simulation. He prioritizes measurable performance improvements—both runtime and developer velocity—and brings architecture decisions down to practical instrumentation. Outside of work he blends music and data into visualizations, a creative habit that often surfaces as concise, elegant technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (64)
unity3d10
shader10
render10
post-processing10
angularjs10
pipeline10
scriptable10
graphics10
cg9
memory-efficient9
serializer9
javascript9
c-sharp9
json-parser9
json9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mediagraph/plovr
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 days
closurebuild-toolplovr
akerfoot/nano-csv
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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