Yilmaz Kiymaz
Owner at Salted Caramel Games
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYilmaz Kiymaz is a Unity-focused game developer and founder with 13 years of experience building and optimizing production workflows for mobile and AAA-adjacent projects. As owner of Salted Caramel Games he shipped Sandbox City (1M+ organic downloads) and has consulted for studios like King, Toca Boca, and InnoGames to speed iteration, implement Addressables, and harden project architecture. He pairs hands-on engineering with developer education—having taught a master’s level game development course and delivered workflow improvements that cut build and iteration times. Known for diagnosing slow Unity projects before they become costly, he blends product-minded leadership with deep technical craftsmanship across gameplay, tooling, and pipeline. Based in Hamburg, he brings founder-level ownership and an uncommon emphasis on developer experience to every project.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Interactive Media and Game Development, B.S. Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHigh School, High School at Uskudar American Academy
English, Turkish, German
Github Skills (32)
mmo10
mobile-game10
mobile-first10
opengl7
roslyn-analyzer6
requestanimationframe6
unity3d6
unity-editor6
vulkan6
cross-platform6
bullet6
game-development5
animate5
physics5
tween5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
VoxelBoy/Resources-for-Writing-Shaders-in-Unity
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
VoxelBoy/EditorFormulas
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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