Igor Knyazev
Lead Unity Developer at Zillion Whales
Yerevan, Russia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIgor Knyazev is a Lead Unity Developer with 10 years of experience building and shipping cross-platform mobile games and apps, currently leading architecture, performance and team delivery on titles at Zillion Whales. He combines deep Unity3D and .NET Core expertise with hands-on mobile frontend/back-end development, DevOps and publishing, having moved from full‑stack React Native and PHP backends into game engineering. Igor has contributed to popular open-source React Native components (react-native-calendars), improving date handling and UX across Android and iOS, reflecting a practical focus on cross-platform reliability. A proven technical lead on live free-to-play projects like Mushroom Wars 2 and Wild Forest, he pairs production-grade engineering with a strong academic background (MTech, NSU). Notably, he started in low-level systems and kernel work early in his career, giving him an unusual breadth from drivers to game engines.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology, 5.0, Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology, 5.0 at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Русский, English
Github Skills (6)
react-native10
ui-components10
calendars10
javascript9
ios8
android8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wix/react-native-calendars
May 2017 - Nov 2017
React Native Calendar Components 🗓️ 📆
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Igor contributed to the `react-native-calendars` repository by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the calendar components. Their changes included setting the first week day, adding a `maxDate` parameter, fixing an error related to the date range, and modifying the date range for calendar-list. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and usability of the calendar components within the React Native environment.
reactcalendarreact-nativeandroidreact-native-calendar
nulleof/react-native-appodeal
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactappodealreact-nativeplatformsandroid
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