Brett Kercher
Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Kercher is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience building full-stack and game development systems, currently at Unity Technologies. He taught himself to code in middle school and refined his craft at UT Austin, graduating with a 3.84 GPA in Computer Science. At Unity he’s focused on reliable, production-grade backend systems and DevOps, contributing to notable open-source tooling like the Unity Cache Server by improving memory-efficient cleanup algorithms and adding reliability and diagnostic logging. Prior roles at Certain Affinity and internships at Hudl and Mouser show a consistent track record of shipping multiplayer and web-facing features across studios and product teams. Brett pairs a builder’s curiosity with pragmatic engineering — enjoying hard problems and continuous learning — and brings an attention to low-level performance details that improve system robustness.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.84 GPA, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.84 GPA at The University of Texas at AustinMansfield High School
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Github Skills (10)
caching10
cachemanager10
nodejs10
javascript10
performance-optimization10
testing9
error-handling9
devops8
cicd7
cd7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/unity-cache-server
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Unity CacheServer optimized for multi-client local networks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brett contributed to optimizing the Unity Cache Server's functionality, focusing on memory usage and timestamp comparisons in the cache cleanup process. They implemented a low-memory cleanup algorithm and added options to configure it. The user also integrated reliability manager changes and added tests to improve the server's reliability. Furthermore, they addressed potential connection issues by adding extra logging for ECONNRESET errors.
multi-clientunityoptimizedcacheunity3d
BrettKercher/gitTestProject
Oct 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:84 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 11 months
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