Alec Pierce
Software Engineer at Optios
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Pierce is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in C#, Unity, XR, and distributed systems, currently building Unity-driven research demos and data tools at Optios in Bellevue. He brings a unique blend of research and product experience from Meta—working on computer vision, haptics, and a wrist device—to hands-on VR/AR engineering across startups and studios. Alec co-founded a VR game studio that shipped a Steam title and has repeatedly bridged prototyping and production, shipping interactive systems for Karuna Labs and ForgeFX. Comfortable in both low-level engineering and high-level system design, he pairs research fluency with practical delivery—often translating experimental prototypes into robust demos and services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (9)
motionbuilder9
mixamo9
blender9
3dsmax8
3ds7
react3
nextjs2
game-development2
javascript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pierrce/pierrce.github.io
Dec 2017 - Mar 2021
Website for my personal projects and portfolios.
Contributions:6 PRs, 85 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 3 months
reactjavascriptpersonal-projectsportfoliosnextjs
apiedev/ubuntu_configs
Jul 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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