Alex Hicks
Senior Unity Developer - Toca Jr Team at Sago Mini
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hicks is a Senior Unity Developer with a decade of experience building cross-platform interactive applications for North American audiences, currently leading the Toca Jr team at Sago Mini. He combines deep Unity and C# expertise with practical product leadership—having progressed from junior developer to tech lead while shipping and supporting 15+ titles across Windows, iOS, and Android. Alex has a track record of solving integration and architecture challenges, from cross-platform networking frameworks to model lighting and backend (PHP/MySQL) integrations used in sales galleries and live products. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, he pairs hands-on implementation with estimating, QA, and post-deployment support, making him a reliable bridge between designers, engineers, and product owners. Notably, his background includes maintaining legacy Flash/AS3 projects, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for long-term maintenance and platform migration.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advance Diploma, Game Development, Advance Diploma, Game Development at Niagara College
English
Github Skills (28)
draw9
animation9
animated9
cpp8
aseprite8
gif8
gif-animation8
sprite7
pixel7
spritesheet6
windows6
linux6
pixel-art6
macos5
rpg4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oohicksyoo/RPG-Engine
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Crossplatform game engine written in c++ with rendering implementation done in opengl and vulkan.
Contributions:4 PRs, 119 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
cppvulkangame-developmentrenderingopengl
oohicksyoo/RPG-VirtualSticks
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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