Summary
Michael Lyashenko is a founder and CTO with a proven track record of shipping developer-facing tools and commercial games built in Unity, best known as the solo creator of NGUI (widely adopted since 2011) and the multiplayer Steam title Windward, which sold around 500,000 copies. He combines deep hands-on skills in Unity, C#, CG shader programming and networking (TNet) with product-minded engineering—having moved from indie success to a Senior Engineer role at Unity and back to running his own studio. Michael has led studio builds and technical hiring at scale, shipped mobile and console titles, and sustained long-term community support for his tools via Discord. While not actively seeking roles, he selectively collaborates on compelling game projects for established studios.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming & Analysis, Computer Programming & Analysis at Seneca College
English, Russian