Neil Devine
Principal Engineer Consultant at Aurory
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Devine is a principal engineer and seasoned engineering leader based in Montreal with a 20+ year career building game and editor tooling, runtime systems, and high-performance optimizations across studios and platforms. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from shader and memory/CPU tuning to procedural map generation and controller integration—with senior leadership roles that shaped Unity’s Editor productivity and world-building teams. As a founding partner at PolyPeak and a consultant at Aurory, he bridges startup agility with large-studio discipline to deliver pragmatic, user-focused tools and performance wins for mobile and desktop. His background spans audio and systems engineering for flight simulators to shipping features on AAA titles, reflecting a rare full-stack games engineering pedigree. Known for improving pipelines and developer productivity, he excels at future-proofing complex editor ecosystems during company pivots and restructurings. He holds advanced engineering study from Cambridge and a habit of turning difficult technical debt into measurable product and workflow improvements.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
DUTI Electronics and Computer Engineering, DUTI Electronics and Computer Engineering at IUT Joseph FourierMPhil Engineering, MPhil Engineering at University of CambridgeBEng Electronics and Computer Engineering, BEng Electronics and Computer Engineering at University of Brighton
English, French
Github Skills (5)
graphic9
unity-dots9
render7
pipeline5
scriptable5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
julienb-unity/hw18-gamedebugger
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 days
Unity-Technologies/DOTS-training-samples
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Samples designed as exercises to be ported from Unity GameObjects/MonoBehaviours to Unity DOTS.
Contributions:30 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
unity-dots
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