Michael Maranan
Santa Clarita,California
Summary
Seasoned Unity Developer and Full Stack Web Developer with 10 years of experience in developing games on both mobile and standalone platforms. Proven track record as an individual contributor on 12 commercially published games.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Unity Technologies
08.2022 - 12.2023
- Built new and existing features for casual game creation platform BuzzGames.
- Revamped 10 existing minigames driving better user retention and engagement.
- Co-designed and developed skiing game creation template enabling more user generated content.
- Built highly scalable social features including the comments system, dynamic game details and asynchronous game summary page.
- Streamlined local host development environment setup for faster developer onboarding in backend API endpoint development.
Senior Software Engineer
Age of Learning, Inc. / ABCmouse.com
05.2018 - 08.2022
- Developed and maintained features of flagship app ABCMouse, including hamster pet simulation, user avatar creation system, accessibility, dynamic song player, remote driven storefront, updated classroom and more.
- Built systems and tools for account creation, asset migration, asset bundling, caching, accessibility and more, effectively improving engineering workflows and increasing development productivity rates by 300%
- Headed key research and development initiatives involving accessibility in games, game performance optimizations, compile time optimizations and tech debt elimination.
- Onboarded and mentored newly hired engineers and junior engineers.
- Collaborated with departments across the company in developing new ideas, initiatives, products, and services.
Gameplay Programmer III
Digital Myths
08.2018 - 12.2019
- Consulted for implementing augmented reality features to existing projects, effectively leading the feature integration effort and cutting the development cycle by 50%.
Lead Unity Developer
Vueality
03.2016 - 05.2018
- Lead a team of 5-8 engineers, effectively coordinating both on-site and remote resources under different time zones.
- Advised clients and external development teams on augmented reality feature integration, effectively producing 6 mobile apps with augmented reality features within 2 years.
Engineering Generalist
Blubox Games
08.2015 - 03.2016
- Developed backend server systems for handling game account data, push notifications, rewards and events.
- Ported and provided live updates and bug fixing for existing games in Google Play, AppStore and Amazon AppStore.
Education
BS Game Programming -
The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles
Santa Monica, California10.2015
Aviation Machinist Mate -
United States Navy | NATTC
12.2011
Skills
- Unity3D Game Development
- Full Stack Web Development
- Unreal Game Development
- Mobile Game Development
- Rapid Prototyping
- Object Oriented Programming
- Data Oriented Programming
- Software Architecture
- Game Design
- Project Management
- C#
- Javascript
- Typescript
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- C
- Python
- PHP
- Swift
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Unity Technologies
08.2022 - 12.2023
Gameplay Programmer III
Digital Myths
08.2018 - 12.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Age of Learning, Inc. / ABCmouse.com
05.2018 - 08.2022
Lead Unity Developer
Vueality
03.2016 - 05.2018
Engineering Generalist
Blubox Games
08.2015 - 03.2016
BS Game Programming -
The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles
Aviation Machinist Mate -
United States Navy | NATTC