Jono Forbes
Senior Software Engineer At Unity Labs at Unity Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJono Forbes is a Senior Software Engineer at Unity Labs with a decade of experience building interactive tools, games, and XR experiences from San Francisco. He blends deep Unity/C# expertise with strong UI/UX instincts—evident in contributions to EditorXR like undo/redo for radial menus, Vive trackpad interactions, and in-editor annotation controls. As co-founder of Defective Studios he ships indie games and commercial tools (including the UniMerge Asset Store product), combining gameplay programming, design, and product direction. He’s taught and written curriculum for Unity, led local VR and Unity meetups, and brings rare experience spanning education, community leadership, and commercial engineering. Known for improving developer and user workflows, he focuses on polishing interactions that make complex systems feel simple and delightful.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Electronic Arts, Computer Science, Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute3D Animation, 3D Animation at Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/EditorXR
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
Author XR in XR
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (with emphasis on UI/UX and Unity development)
Full-stack Developer (with emphasis on UI/UX and Unity development)Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jono made significant contributions to the project, including the implementation of utility functions in C# to enhance interface implementations. The user also worked on the UI, adding an undo/redo feature to a radial menu and refining the MainMenu interface and interaction via Vive trackpad swipes. Furthermore, the user implemented new features by adding controls for annotation within the Unity editor. The user also focused on overall user experience.
unity-editorunityvr
Unity-Technologies/DOTS-training-samples
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Samples designed as exercises to be ported from Unity GameObjects/MonoBehaviours to Unity DOTS.
Contributions:28 commits, 17 pushes in 5 days
unity3dunitydotsunity-dots
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