Summary
Elvis Alistar is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in game development, test automation, and core engineering leadership at Unity in Lafayette, Colorado. He has led cross-functional R&D teams to scale CI and test automation from handfuls to tens of millions of tests weekly, building tooling, roadmaps, and processes that improve engineering flow and product quality. Equally comfortable writing automation and mentoring engineers, he has driven transitions between legacy and modern tooling while enforcing agile best practices and risk mitigation. His background spans hands-on programming (Java, J2ME) to founding a games industry publication, showing a blend of deep technical craft and community-building. Notably, he pairs a formal MSc in Media Technology and Games with practical full-stack training, enabling him to bridge game tech, QA, and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Games, Games at Danish Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment (DADIU)
MSc, Media Technology and Games, MSc, Media Technology and Games at IT-Universitetet i København
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
English, Romanian, Danish, German