Noel Stephens
Senior Netcode Engineer at Unity Technologies
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoel Stephens is a Senior Netcode Engineer at Unity Technologies with over 25 years of systems, game-engine and platform development experience, specializing in C#, C++, .NET, RPC/IPC and cloud-integrated solutions. He has a deep background building and shipping game engines and networking systems—from porting Quake engines to Xbox to enabling high-level Netcode for GameObjects at Unity—combined with CTO-level experience developing secure cloud-to-endpoint architectures and patented cybersecurity techniques. Noel blends low-level driver and IoT work with higher-level cloud and container development, and is comfortable across Windows, Linux, ARM and embedded platforms. Known for seeing projects through to gold master, he brings a rare mix of hands-on engineering, systems design and product-minded leadership, and has contributed core refactors and profiling enhancements to Unity’s widely used netcode SDK.
5 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at ITT Technical Institute-Houston WestPhysics, Physics at University of St. Thomas
Github Skills (5)
net10
csharp10
networking10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Netcode for GameObjects is a high-level netcode SDK that provides networking capabilities to GameObject/MonoBehaviour workflows within Unity and sits on top of underlying transport layer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1294 reviews, 1021 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Noel primarily contributed to the "com.unity.netcode.gameobjects" repository, a high-level netcode SDK for Unity. Their contributions involved cleaning up and refactoring the RPCQueue branch, including modifying and adding new profiler markers. This work focused on core networking components, such as the NetworkingManager and the SpawnManager, and included renaming and adjusting parameters.
unitymonobehaviouron-topnetcode-for-gameobjectshigh-level
Unity-Technologies/com.unity.multiplayer.rfcs
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:33 reviews, 69 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
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