Resume

Mika Notarnicola

732-977-5643 | Bellevue, WA | mika@beardphantom.com

Experience

Senior Professional Services Engineer, Unity Technologies | May 2019 - Present

Assisted on Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition

Shipped Subnautica: Below Zero, available on Nintendo Switch.

Senior Software Engineer, NCSOFT | May 2018 - April 2019

Software Engineer, NCSOFT | May 2017 - May 2018

Worked on Criminal Empire, a now discontinued mobile game made with Unity.

Responsible for developing client-side game features, occasionally modifying server code to support development of features.
Consistent UI optimization work for mid-tier to high-end mobile devices.
Reworked major systems such as UI and low level systems as part of improvement passes.
Developed tutorial/event/sequencing system from the ground up, integrated with existing game data solutions for designers to implement narrative moments and intricate tutorial sequences based on game triggers.
Heavy optimization passes to editor tools, reducing memory allocation on large scales.
Developed tools for improving navigating the Unity Editor, debugging game state, and validating game data.

Unity Engineer, Kiz Studios | April 2016 - February 2017

Unity engineer involved in developing and maintaining nearly every corner of the codebase.
Technical design experience. Working with game/UI designers and project managers to establish implementation goals and deadlines based on technical and resource constraints.
Developed Behavior Tree visualization editor tool to help visualize AI decision making in real time.
Collaborated with UI designers to ensure that performance was up to par by eliminating draw calls and canvas rebuilds through careful planning of assets and HUD infrastructure/layout.
Developed new AI behaviors for enemy characters based on designer writeups using behavior trees and state machines.
Incorporated new logger used across the entire project which allowed for writing logs to multiple files based on log category and severity, asset based per-environment logger configurations and performance/verbose modes to permit maximum debug logging at little cost to performance.
Developed extensive tutorial systems and UI.

Lead Programmer, Rubycone Games | March 2015 - October 2015

Completed Gunula:

Owned complete responsibility for all programming tasks, UI design and implementation.
Designed and implemented animation systems for the main character.
Designed and implemented a sprite sheet marker system, which allowed for tracking points in sprite sheets across animation frames using pre-baked data for massive performance gains.
Developed a dynamic combat effects animation system to accurately depict projectiles passing through enemies.

Programmer, Rubycone Games | September 2013 - March 2015

Created JIGSAW system, the main gameplay feature that simulated psychosis by manipulating the physical game environment without the player seeing. This required a lot of optimization to ensure that large detailed rooms could be loaded/offloaded efficiently and quickly.
Developed tools and Unity Editor extensions to assist in rapid prototyping/implementation and level design.
Implemented all game UI using uGUI and custom UI components for full controller support.
Led all group interviews conducted by media
Assisted ProCore in debugging features in the ProBuilder Unity editor extension, used extensively in HEKTOR.

Subnautica: Below Zero (Nintendo Switch, 2021)

Subnautica (Nintendo Switch, 2021)

Criminal Empire (discontinued) (iOS/Android, 2019)
Traveler (PC, Global Game Jam 2019)

The Ascent (Prototype) (PC, Weekly Game Jam 76, 2019)

Dash Galactic (Android, 2016)

Gunula (PC/Mac/Linux, 2015)

HEKTOR (PC/Mac/Linux, 2015)

Programming Languages: C#, C++, Java, Cg/HLSL

Engines/Frameworks: Unity, Unreal, MonoGame, SFML

Version Control: Git, PlasticSCM, SVN, P4, Mercurial

Tool Development: Unity’s UI Toolkit, uGUI and IMGUI, WPF, Winforms

BaaS/SaaS Integration

Developer-first code design and architecture