Anthony Yakovlev
Technical Lead at Unity Technologies
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Yakovlev is a Technical Lead with 13 years of experience specializing in real-time 3D physics for games, simulation, and robotics, currently owning Unity's PhysX integration. He leads a small engineering team, shapes roadmap and architecture, and ships cross-platform C++/C#/Python solutions that run on 20+ platforms and power titles like Rust, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Pokemon GO. Known for diagnosing subtle performance, accuracy and behavioural issues, he combines hands-on implementation with customer-facing work, external project reviews and public technical communication. His background in cooperative pathfinding, multi-threading and memory optimization traces back to building core subsystems for RTS games and console/handheld engines, and he brings an applied-math mindset from an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics. An understated strength is turning legacy, platform-specific code into robust, portable systems while mentoring hires and maintaining partner relationships.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Applied Mathematics, MSc, Applied Mathematics at Saint-Petersburg State University Information Technologies, Mechanic and Optics (University ITMO)M.Sc., Applied Mathematics, M.Sc., Applied Mathematics at ITMO University
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (17)
keyboard10
gamepad10
robot10
mouse10
unity3d10
physx9
gazebosim9
robotics9
simulation9
urdf9
robotics-simulation9
ros8
sdk8
nvidia8
fbx5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
imversed/unity-client
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:9 pushes in 5 days
K-Tone/GLTFUtility
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Simple GLTF importer for Unity
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
unitygltfimporter
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