Philip Cosgrave
Senior Tools Engineer at Epic Games
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Cosgrave is a Senior Tools Engineer and seasoned software leader with over 15 years of experience building and improving UI systems, engine components, and developer tools across game and real-time platforms. He has managed and grown cross-disciplinary teams at Unity—scaling service revenue by 50% in eight months—while remaining an active contributor to core UI code (notably on Unity's uGUI InputField, Graphic, and Selectable components). Equally comfortable coding and leading, Philip has a track record of shipping impactful editor and in-game UI features, automating workflows that doubled art-pipeline efficiency, and designing profiling tools that cut bug reports by 20%. His background spans startups and major studios (Unity, Epic Games, Gameloft), blending product-minded technical leadership with hands-on problem solving in AI-inflected UI design. Based in Whitby, Ontario, he mentors engineers, shapes manager training, and thrives on turning legacy systems into flexible, user-centric platforms.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Computer Science, BSC Computer Science at Brock UniversityMarkville SS
Github Skills (11)
ui-components10
uid10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
layout9
layoutmanager9
event-handling8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/uGUI
Oct 2015 - Oct 2020
Source code for the Unity UI system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the UI system, specifically focusing on the InputField, Graphic, and Selectable components. They made several updates, including fixing bugs related to caret and selection, and ensuring the proper behaviour of these elements. Furthermore, they contributed to layout and rendering aspects across various UI components, optimizing the overall performance and functionality within the Unity environment. The contributions span from core UI system improvements to adding minor but crucial code changes.
unity-uiunity3dunitysystem-ui
suntabu/UnityUI
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 commits in 11 months
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