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Seven years of shipping XR

I'm Pedro Gomes, a senior Unity developer in Portugal. Since 2019 I've been the go-to Unity developer at an XR studio, building VR, AR and mixed reality for international clients in healthcare, industry, logistics, architecture and entertainment.

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Experience

Senior Unity Developer

Apr 2019 – Present

WaveFunction VR · Portugal · intern until Jan 2020 with the same scope, full-time since Feb 2020

  • Unity technical owner. Hands-on in nearly every Unity project the studio took on (50+), responsible for architecture and implementation on most of them.
  • Gameplay. Core gameplay for VR titles: hover racing, basketball, a multiplayer escape room, a shooting simulator and a minigame collection.
  • Multiplayer. Networked VR with Photon PUN 2, including the studio's largest project (cross-platform team-building with desktop and Android spectators) and a multiplayer lab-training classroom with synced hand tracking.
  • VR interaction. Grab, poke and UI systems, and a reusable hand-pose library I animated in Unity.
  • Training simulations. Long-running medical, lab and mental-health apps, including real-time voice consultations with an LLM virtual patient, plus industrial and safety training.
  • Platforms. Shipped to Meta Quest, Pico and PCVR, and ported a children's MRI simulator from Quest-only to Quest + Pico.
  • Beyond code. Editor tools, reusable modules, MR/AR prototypes, and animation and integration support for the art and design teams.

BSc, Video Game Development Engineering

2015 – 2018

Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave (UPCA, formerly IPCA) · Portugal

Skills

Engines
Unity (expert, up to Unity 6 / URP, Animator, Timeline) · Unreal Engine 5 (working knowledge)
Language
C# (expert)
XR
Meta Quest, Pico, PCVR / SteamVR · OpenXR · Meta XR and Pico SDKs · XR Interaction Toolkit · hand tracking · MR / AR
Multiplayer
Photon · networked VR avatars and state sync · session and lobby flow
Gameplay
Game systems, physics-based interaction, card-game AI, card / RPG / combat systems, UI and game feel
Engineering
Git · editor tooling · engine-independent C# architecture · standalone-headset performance · Android / WebGL / Windows builds
Languages
Portuguese (native) · English (working language with international clients)

Case studies

Some of the systems I built. Client and product names are left out for confidentiality.