Phil Cooper-King
Manager, Software Engineering at Unity
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Cooper-King is a seasoned software engineering manager based in Edinburgh with 15 years’ experience shipping high-performance rendering, compute, and SDKs across desktop, mobile and console platforms. He combines hands-on expertise in C++ and C# with leadership of both structured and ad-hoc distributed teams at companies like Unity, Codeplay and Esri, focusing on performance-driven optimisation and cross-platform tooling. Phil has represented employers on standards bodies (Vulkan) and routinely mentors engineers, runs hiring processes, and balances developer experience with product delivery. Comfortable in large legacy codebases and small startups alike, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset informed by graphics, compilers and middleware work — and an inexplicable fondness for Jaffa Cakes.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Games Technology, First Class, BSc, Computer Games Technology, First Class at University of Abertay Dundee
Github Skills (67)
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine10
imgui10
api10
cross-platform10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
gcc9
intercept9
unicode9
typography9
variable-fonts9
lua-binding9
opentype9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
republic-of-almost/mono
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:25 PRs, 495 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year
reactmono-repomonorepnodejs
republic-of-almost/math
May 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:133 pushes, 13 branches, 6 comments in 2 years 1 month
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