Jihyeon Nam
Software Developer at Unity
Canada
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Top SchoolJihyeon Nam is a full-stack software developer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable data and reporting features at Unity using React, TypeScript, Node.js and cloud services. She combines a teacher’s communication and critical-thinking skills with hands-on engineering, guiding incident response and partnering with clients to resolve user-facing issues. Comfortable across the stack and with microservices, she has migrated production apps to Next.js, integrated payments and third-party APIs, and designed data-aware storage for performant dashboards. An open-source contributor to the widely used Cocos2d-x engine, she focuses on pragmatic refactoring and simplifying code—reflecting her preference for clean, efficient solutions rooted in real-time game server experience. Based in Canada, she enjoys the challenge of hunting down bugs and delivering tangible, user-visible impact.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Web Development, Diploma, Web Development at Concordia UniversityCertificate of Completion in Full Stack Developer Nanodegree Program, Computer Programming, Certificate of Completion in Full Stack Developer Nanodegree Program, Computer Programming at Udacity
English, Korean, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
cocos2d-x10
game-development9
android7
ios7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-x
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
Role in this project:
Software Developer
Software DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 27 PRs, 6 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jihyeon primarily focused on code maintenance and refactoring within the Cocos2d-x game engine. Their contributions involve fixing return values, removing unnecessary code, and renaming functions for clarity. The user also updated the codebase by modifying and replacing deprecated functionalities, enhancing the engine's performance and maintainability.
cocos2dmetalc-plus-plusiosdevelopment-tools
Thomas2070/THE_DEAD_FOREST
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:72 commits in 2 days
mobile-gamefpsgameandroid
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