Richard Fine
Principal Engineer at Unity
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Fine is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building robust developer tooling and backend systems, currently driving platform and build-system excellence at Unity from Montreal. He has progressed through technical leadership roles at Unity—ranging from Buildsystem Team Lead to Technical Architect—and runs The Binary Refinery, blending product-focused engineering with consultancy. Richard is a pragmatic refactorer who improves long-lived codebases for clarity and safety, evidenced by substantive contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as the NUnit testing framework and the OpenRCT2 reimplementation. His work emphasizes type safety, maintainability, and developer ergonomics, often introducing interfaces and enums that reduce runtime surprises. A University of Oxford MCompSci graduate, he pairs deep academic grounding with hands-on systems experience across games and developer services. Outside obvious leadership duties, he quietly levels up teams by modernizing core libraries rather than chasing surface features.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MCompSci Computer Science, MCompSci Computer Science at University of Oxford
English
Github Skills (22)
reflection10
c-language10
test-driven-design10
net10
nunit10
test-framework10
dotnet10
c1110
enums10
c1710
asp-net10
attribute10
network-interface10
reflections10
openrc10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 69 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the OpenRCT2 project by implementing and refactoring code related to peep behavior and data structures. They introduced type safety through the use of enums for various peep properties like states, actions, types, and sprite types. The user's contributions improved code clarity, type safety, and debugging capabilities within the game's peep-related systems.
re-implementationgamediscordc-plus-plussimulation
nunit/nunit
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on refactoring and improving the NUnit framework's internal workings. Their commits involved modifying and extending the `Reflect` class and related components to enhance how the framework handles method reflection and attribute retrieval. These changes include using generic type parameters and introducing `ITypeInfo` to improve code clarity and maintainability. The user also updated several core classes within the framework, adapting them to utilize the refactored reflection methods, resulting in a more robust and extensible testing framework.
nunitnunit-frameworktddtestingtest-framework
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