Paul Tham
Senior Director Of Development at Unity Technologies
Singapore
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Top SchoolPaul Tham is a seasoned technology leader with nine years in software and over a decade at the intersection of game and backend engineering, currently Senior Director of Development at Unity Technologies leading all 2D features from implementation to customer engagement. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Unity internals—particularly refactoring and optimizing 2D lighting, mesh generation, and render pipelines—and contributes to high-profile repos like Unity-Technologies/Graphics. Earlier roles at Lucasfilm and Ubisoft underpin his strengths in scalable, high-availability backend systems and online game platforms using Java, Spring, and modern datastores. Based in Singapore, he combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with product-facing leadership, and is known for cleaning up thorny nulls, profiler issues, and legacy array bugs that quietly improve performance and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at University Malaysia
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (7)
csharp10
shader10
graphics-programming10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
optimization9
refactoring9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/Graphics
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Unity Graphics - Including Scriptable Render Pipeline
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 84 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to refactoring and optimizing the 2D lighting system within the Unity graphics repository. Their work involved restructuring code, creating render textures, and enabling/disabling blend styles. They addressed and resolved several issues, including fixes for array initialization errors, infinite profiler issues, and null reference exceptions. Additionally, they made improvements to mesh generation and introduced code cleanups across multiple files.
renderpost-processingpipelinescriptableunity
Unity-Technologies/triangle.net
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 16 days
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