Summary
Niki Walker is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in Unity, netcode, and multiplayer systems, currently contributing to Unity's Netcode for Entities efforts from Cambridge. They built production multiplayer and deterministic physics engines at Ubisoft’s Future Games of London, shipped features for massively downloaded mobile titles, and architected an internal DOTS-based multiplayer SDK integrated with matchmaker and autoscaling services. Self-taught from age 17, Niki combines deep systems-level knowledge of Unity DOTS/ECS and transport stacks with hands-on gameplay experience across VR, mobile, and synchronous multiplayer. A positivity-driven, kindness-first collaborator and visible LGBTQ+ advocate, they balance serious engineering rigor with thoughtful mentorship and documentation. Notably, they led the development of a priority-based client-as-host relay system and authored core netcode used to prototype multiple successful multiplayer projects.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English