Nick Vaccaro
Game Developer at Elder Game LLC
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNick Vaccaro is a game-focused software engineer with over a decade of professional experience building live services and commercial indie titles. He currently improves player experience on Project: Gorgon through end-to-end Unity development—revamping core UIs, shipping dozens of QoL features, fixing hundreds of player-reported bugs, and even adding roller-skate mounts for spiders. As co-founder of Synersteel Studio he programs, produces, and designs puzzles (60+ iterated levels) for multi-platform releases while managing builds, optimization, and public showcases like PAX East. His background also includes full-stack and mobile work—React/Redux, React Native, .NET backends, and DevOps—paired with Scrum leadership and extensive test coverage. Based in Pennsylvania, he blends player-facing polish with backend reliability and a knack for translating community feedback into prioritized engineering work.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Drexel University
English
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Github Skills (10)
swift10
macos10
ios10
cocoapods9
objective-c9
xcode9
carthage8
shadow8
java2
android1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NickJVaccaro/valleyofshadow-site
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Website for the video game Valley of Shadow
Contributions:64 commits, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
video-gamevalleyvideoshadow
NickJVaccaro/personal-site-react
Mar 2020 - Sep 2023
Personal site, written this time in React
Contributions:8 PRs, 62 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 6 months
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