Alexey Zakharov
Team Lead at Unity
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Zakharov is a seasoned game and engine engineer with 17+ years of hands-on experience and seven years in leadership, currently heading the Profiler team at Unity from Berlin. He has repeatedly delivered shipped titles and low-level engine features across roles—from CTO of a casual games studio to performance-focused R&D at Unity—specializing in memory, load-time and domain-reload optimizations. Alexey combines deep C++ systems expertise with practical tooling improvements for profiling and enter-play-mode performance, driving measurable runtime and developer-experience gains. He has a background in physics and automated systems software, which informs his analytical approach to performance problems and data compression. Notably, he led cross-platform rendering and web-porting efforts early in his career, demonstrating an ability to optimize for constrained environments as well as large-scale engine infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Physics, MS, Physics at Dnipropetrovs'kij Nacional'nij UniversitetBS, Software of automated systems, BS, Software of automated systems at Dnipropetrovsk State Technical University of Railway Transport
Russian, English
Github Skills (15)
mobile10
iot10
dotnet10
ecma10
graphic10
csharp9
cli9
render7
cil7
mono6
bytecode6
scriptable5
pipeline4
api1
trace1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexey-zakharov/libGPUCounters
Sep 2025 - Sep 2025
A utility library for application developers to sample Arm Immortalis GPU or Arm Mali GPU performance counters.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
Unity-Technologies/runtime
May 2023 - Aug 2025
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Contributions:34 reviews, 38 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 years 3 months
dotnetiotmobile
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