Miguel Alcántara
Senior Software Engineer 2 at Zynga
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Alcántara is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in C#, Unity, and game programming, currently based in Austin. He has led teams and shipped high-impact mobile titles—driving a 30%+ engagement lift on WWF 2 features at Zynga and serving as principal engineer on a #1 top free game with 200+ million downloads. Miguel combines hands-on engine and systems design (multithreaded core architectures, addressables asset loading, IAP and SDK automation) with product-facing collaboration across designers and PMs to deliver live-ops improvements and platform ports. He also brings embedded and robotics experience, having developed firmware, custom compilers, and simulations, which informs his pragmatic approach to performance and tooling. Known for reducing integration timeframes from weeks to hours, he favors building reusable SDKs and automation that scale across projects.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Video game design with programming concentration, Bachelor's degree, Video game design with programming concentration at Atlantic University CollageBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Interamerican Univerisity Bayamon Campus
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
unity3d9
build-automation8
addressables7
open-source5
github3
fonts2
unity-editor2
git2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RotaryHeart/com.unity.addressables
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Addressables extended with the ability to build multiple catalogs, ideal for traditional DLC purposes.
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
traditionalextendedidealcatalogsability
RotaryHeart/SerializableDictionaryLite
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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