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Anton Vikharev

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Unity and backend engineer at BebopBee, Inc. who shipped Travel Crush and built its match-3 engine and level designer.

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At BebopBee, Inc., I built the core match-3 engine for Travel Crush and an in-editor level designer that let designers play and tune levels without leaving Unity. I also created a dynamic difficulty system and AI-driven automated level playtesting.

I shipped live-ops events and built a custom AssetBundle delivery system for background-downloading content. Travel Crush has more than 1 million downloads.

On Super Jump League, I built a deterministic 2D physics engine and implemented client-side prediction and latency compensation for multiplayer. I also developed bot AI with A* pathfinding and behaviour trees, and cheat detection via Photon server plugins.

More recently, I launched commercial Telegram bots using my .NET-based backend framework, PostgreSQL and the OpenAI API, and developed an AI-native production CRM with Next.js, Express, PostgreSQL and Docker. I also discovered a high-severity vulnerability in UMA Protocol's Solidity smart contracts, earning a $10,000 bug bounty.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Independent Unity & Backend & AI Engineer

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Own Practice

Aug 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Finished several contract projects as a Unity, Backend and full-stack AI-native MVP developer.

Unity C#Backend AI Full Stack

Unity / C# / Backend Fullstack Engineer

BebopBee, Inc.

Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 (1 year)

Designed architecture and planned implementation of multiple client-server features. Migrated backend from Python/Tornado to BrainCloud BaaS and shipped multiple live-ops events.

Unity C#Backend BrainCloud LiveOps Procedural Animation Technical Interviews

Unity / C# Software Engineer

Ankr

Dec 2022 - Jul 2023 (7 months)

Sole Unity engineer who shipped a cross-platform Unity SDK, including WebGL, one month ahead of platform launch. Integrated third-party APIs for cross-platform transaction processing.

Unity C#WebGL SDK ASP.NET PostgreSQL Entity Framework Core RabbitMQ

Unity / C# Tech Lead

Decentraland Foundation

Jul 2022 - Nov 2022 (4 months)

Joined as Tech Lead to work on the open source Explorer for one of the very first Metaverse projects.

Unity C#Technical Lead Open Source Metaverse

Unity / C# / Python Fullstack Engineer

BebopBee, Inc.

Mar 2018 - Jun 2022 (4 years 3 months)

Built the core match-3 engine and an in-editor level designer. Created a dynamic difficulty system and developed AI-driven automated level playtesting.

Unity C#Python Match 3 Games Level Design AI LiveOps Asset Bundles UI Optimization Shaders Social Systems Redis Facebook Google Apple Sign In

Unity / C# Software Engineer

BebopBee, Inc.

Jul 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 8 months)

Built a deterministic 2D physics engine and implemented networking with client-side prediction and latency compensation. Implemented A* pathfinding and behaviour trees for bot AI.

Unity C#Physics Networking Client Side Prediction Latency Compensation A* Pathfinding Behavior Trees Cheating Detection Photon Lobby Design Meta Game Build Optimization

Unity / C# Software Engineer

Crazy Panda

Aug 2015 - Jun 2016 (10 months)

Created procedural galaxy generation for 100,000+ planets and built a quad-tree rendering system for smooth infinite zoom. Built Editor extensions for validating game-design math.

Unity C#Procedural Generation Quadtree Editor Extensions