I'm a professional programmer with 10+ years of experience using C# as a Unity generalist, covering many teams, multiple shipped platforms, and solving difficult problems in optimization, tooling, networking, and UI. In my spare time I also work on new projects to keep my knowledge flowing, such as releasing a personal game on Steam and assets on the Unity Asset Store. I’m always keen to learn new engines, languages, and platforms. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, I can work remotely but am open to relocating if required. I’m currently between contracts and ready to start immediately.…

James Peter Veugelaers

I'm a professional programmer with 10+ years of experience using C# as a Unity generalist, covering many teams, multiple shipped platforms, and solving difficult problems in optimization, tooling, networking, and UI. In my spare time I also work on new projects to keep my knowledge flowing, such as releasing a personal game on Steam and assets on the Unity Asset Store. I’m always keen to learn new engines, languages, and platforms. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, I can work remotely but am open to relocating if required. I’m currently between contracts and ready to start immediately.…

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I’m a professional programmer with 10+ years of experience using C# as a Unity generalist, covering many teams, multiple shipped platforms, and solving difficult problems in optimization, tooling, networking, and UI.

In my spare time I also work on new projects to keep my knowledge flowing, such as releasing a personal game on Steam and assets on the Unity Asset Store. I’m always keen to learn new engines, languages, and platforms. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, I can work remotely but am open to relocating if required. I’m currently between contracts and ready to start immediately.

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Skills

Experience Level

C#
Expert
Unity
Expert
Unity 3D
Expert
Game Design
Intermediate
UI
Beginner

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Unity Programmer / Team Lead at Learn Nation
December 3, 2025 - April 28, 2026
Responsibilities - Upskilling team in Unity - Building Unity project foundations - Setting up & running sprint workflows - Making project roadmap - Creating tools for artists - +Many more
Senior Programmer, Lead Programmer at Wētā Workshop
October 1, 2023 - October 1, 2025
Responsibilities - Debugging hard technical problems - Assisting all departments - Improving workflows w/ editor tools - Mentoring other programmers - CPU optimization - Post release support
Senior Programmer, Lead Programmer at PikPok
October 1, 2016 - October 1, 2023
Responsibilities - Maintaining project codebase - Upskilling tech team - Exploring new and existing tech - Directing project vision - Implementing core game loop - Management communication - Sever programming - Gameplay programming - UI Programming - Optimization - +More

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Computers & Electronics, Gaming, Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment
    paper Tales of the Shire

    I was hired as a Senior Unity Developer to assist the other programmers by resolving some difficult to solve problems and mentor them in best practices. I was also hired to help the other departments by improving the pipelines from data to in-game by creating new tools and optimizing the existing ones so they are able to iterate much faster.

    paper Ready Set Golf: Mobile

    Realtime multiplayer golf game that was ported from Snap chat games to android/ios (which i also worked on).

    This projects difficulties came from working with the rollback network layer and using photons relay server. Great learned opportunities as the project was a success that we delivered in a short time frame and were able to add in customization that we weren’t able to get into the original game.

    paper [Personal Project] Last Message: Steam

    While working at PikPok I also worked on my own free horror game with some colleagues to get the experience of creating and releasing the game on steam. It took 2 years and I learned a lot in this time and managed to make it happen.

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