Hoss Shah
Founder And CEO at No Such Studio
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolHoss Shah is a founder and seasoned software leader with 8 years of experience building games, AI-driven systems, and scalable platform components across startups and big tech. He founded No Such Studio to ship indie mobile and web games while previously leading engineering and architecture at ALICE Technologies and contributing to Android OTA at Google and platform work at Microsoft. His strengths span software architecture, algorithms, OO design, system-level performance, and team leadership, with hands-on experience upgrading and refactoring complex codebases. An active open-source contributor, he improved RTL support for Persian and Arabic in a Unity TextMeshPro plugin, tackling ligatures, number formatting, and performance—an atypical blend of language localization and game tech expertise. Based in Santa Monica, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering and a gamer’s attention to interactive systems. He’s now seeking senior engineering or tech leadership roles where he can drive technical vision and mentor teams.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of AlbertaBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
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Github Skills (17)
persian10
plaintext10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
arabic10
unity3d10
unity-game-engine9
performance-optimization8
algorithm7
algorithms7
csv6
game-development6
firebase6
2d6
localization6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pnarimani/RTLTMPro
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Right-To-Left Text Mesh Pro for Unity. This plugin adds support for Persian and Arabic languages to TextMeshPro.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 28 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Hoss primarily worked on enhancing the RTL (Right-to-Left) text support within a Unity TextMeshPro plugin. Their contributions included upgrading the project to newer Unity and TextMeshPro versions, enabling RTL overrides, and fixing number formatting within rich text tags. Furthermore, the user implemented features to correctly handle ligatures and character conversion for Arabic and Persian languages, demonstrating a focus on improving the plugin's core functionality and language support. The user also refactored parts of the code for performance and functionality.
meshpersiantext-mesh-prounitylanguages
hk1ll3r/BidirectionalHorizontalLayoutGroup
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
A horizontal layout group for Unity UI that supports both left-to-right and right-to-left.
Contributions:3 releases, 21 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
layoutunityunity-uiunity3dhorizontal
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