James Mccafferty
Staff Software Engineer at Unity
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mccafferty is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building R&D systems at Unity, focused on AI-powered in‑Editor assistance, multiplayer editing, runtime USD, and WebGL to accelerate creative workflows. He thrives in fast-changing, ambiguous environments and is deeply fluent in C#, shipping production-ready prototypes that derisk experimental technology. His background spans AR medical training at CAE, embedded IoT and cloud integrations, and full‑stack tooling—giving him a rare cross-domain fluency from microcontrollers to large editor architectures. At Unity he’s been instrumental in integrating LLM-backed tooling into the editor and exploring microservice and web-to-Unity interactions for WebGL. Known as a pragmatic engineer-lead, he pairs hands-on development with documentation, pipelines, and processes that boost team velocity. Based in Mountain View, he blends creative arts training with software engineering, which informs his focus on tooling that empowers creators.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Creative Arts, DEC Creative Arts at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Software Engineering and Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Software Engineering and Psychology at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (40)
openai-api10
css9
nodejs9
chrome9
html9
frontend8
unity-dots8
unity-ui8
javascript8
electron8
ui-components7
crossword7
ios7
ionic7
v87
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hexthedev/HexUN
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Core systems used by hex libraries across Unity projects
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 131 pushes in 2 years 2 months
hexunityutilitiesunity3dui-toolkit
hexthedev/HexUN-UXUI
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Centralized patterns and reusable elements that uses Unity UI.
Contributions:70 commits, 6 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year
unity-ui
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