Jono Barel
Unity Developer at Zero Prep Games
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJono Barel is a Unity Developer with nine years of technical and product experience, combining a Master's in Game Design and Development with a strong background in risk analytics from a decade at PayPal. He builds gameplay systems and tooling across Unity, Godot and Unreal for PC and mobile, and has shipped performance-conscious systems like progressive scene loading, save/load, and minigame frameworks. Jono also coaches and teaches C# and Unity best practices as a volunteer mentor and former instructor, translating complex ideas into learnable projects. His prior roles leading data science and risk teams honed an analytical approach to game feature design, using experimentation and metrics to iterate efficiently. Based in the UK, he co-founded indie studio Zero Prep Games and bridges commercial delivery with pedagogy and cross-disciplinary product strategy.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tel Aviv UniversityMaster's degree Digital Game Design and Development, Master's degree Digital Game Design and Development at Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art.Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Business Administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
discord10
discord-bot10
api9
api-documentation9
passenger6
activerecord6
documentation6
database6
ms-access6
sinatra6
ckeditor6
ruby6
dreamhost6
apache6
windows5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MiriNu/PokemonGOap
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 14 PRs, 28 pushes in 11 days
jonobarel/mega-space-escape
Jun 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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