Jackson Dunstan
Staff Software Engineer at Latitude AI
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJackson Dunstan is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building games and interactive systems for iOS, Android, and the web, including work on the #1 kids MMO Club Penguin and immersive projects for Walt Disney Imagineering. He specializes in game engines and core technology, often owning low-level systems while occasionally implementing gameplay logic. His open-source work on UnityNativeScripting demonstrates deep C++/C# interop expertise, having extended scripting to handle structs, enums, delegates, and platform-specific build issues for iOS. Based in Glendale, CA, he blends large-studio experience—from MMOs to themed-ride interactions—with hands-on backend and engine development. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambitious creative ideas into robust, performant systems that ship at scale.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Real Time Interactive Science, B.S. Real Time Interactive Science at DigiPen Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
pinvoke10
dotnet-core10
il2cpp10
cprogramming-language10
csharp10
unity3d10
cpp9
reflections8
delegates8
enums8
reflection8
typed-array7
multidimensional-arrays7
arrayobject7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jacksondunstan/UnityNativeScripting
Aug 2017 - Mar 2021
Unity Scripting in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 11 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jackson focused on extending the C++ scripting system for Unity. They implemented support for various C# types, including structs, enums, and delegates, to allow for more comprehensive interactions between C++ and C# code. A core part of their work involved modifying the code generator to handle new types, improve performance, and integrate features like boxing and unboxing. They also addressed a number of linker errors and compilation issues, ensuring the integration worked on the target iOS platform.
scriptingcppil2cpppinvokeunity-editor
jacksondunstan/NativeCollections
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Native Collection Types for Unity
Contributions:51 commits, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 5 months
unity3dunityextension-methods
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