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Hi, I'm Maryam Rasheed, a passionate game development professional with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams to create engaging mobile games. With a strong background in Unity, Unreal Engine, and AR/VR development, I've helped deliver multiple successful projects on time while improving workflow efficiency and user satisfaction. I enjoy collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers to bring ideas to life and mentor junior team members. My expertise ranges from technical problem-solving to user-centric design and research, making me a versatile contributor to innovative projects in gaming and interactive applications.…Hi, I'm Maryam Rasheed, a passionate game development professional with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams to create engaging mobile games. With a strong background in Unity, Unreal Engine, and AR/VR development, I've helped deliver multiple successful projects on time while improving workflow efficiency and user satisfaction. I enjoy collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers to bring ideas to life and mentor junior team members. My expertise ranges from technical problem-solving to user-centric design and research, making me a versatile contributor to innovative projects in gaming and interactive applications.

Maryam Rasheed

Game Developer, Game Designer, Project Manager, +3

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Hi, I'm Maryam Rasheed, a passionate game development professional with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams to create engaging mobile games. With a strong background in Unity, Unreal Engine, and AR/VR development, I've helped deliver multiple successful projects on time while improving workflow efficiency and user satisfaction. I enjoy collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers to bring ideas to life and mentor junior team members. My expertise ranges from technical problem-solving to user-centric design and research, making me a versatile contributor to innovative projects in gaming and interactive applications.…Hi, I'm Maryam Rasheed, a passionate game development professional with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams to create engaging mobile games. With a strong background in Unity, Unreal Engine, and AR/VR development, I've helped deliver multiple successful projects on time while improving workflow efficiency and user satisfaction. I enjoy collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers to bring ideas to life and mentor junior team members. My expertise ranges from technical problem-solving to user-centric design and research, making me a versatile contributor to innovative projects in gaming and interactive applications.

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Hi, I’m Maryam Rasheed, a passionate game development professional with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams to create engaging mobile games. With a strong background in Unity, Unreal Engine, and AR/VR development, I’ve helped deliver multiple successful projects on time while improving workflow efficiency and user satisfaction.

I enjoy collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers to bring ideas to life and mentor junior team members. My expertise ranges from technical problem-solving to user-centric design and research, making me a versatile contributor to innovative projects in gaming and interactive applications.

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English

Fluent

Urdu

Fluent

French

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Work Experience

Game Development Lead at Absolutely Digital

October 1, 2023 - December 10, 2024

Led a multidisciplinary team of 7 developers to deliver 3 high-quality mobile games for Android and iOS on time, ensuring adherence to quality standards, while overseeing the development of additional games in progress. Introduced streamlined processes to improve workflow efficiency, including task prioritization, code review procedures, and quality assurance protocols, resulting in a significant decrease in development cycle time. Resolved major technical issues related to performance, crashes, build size, and in-app purchases, reducing loading time by 25% and boosting user satisfaction, retention, and revenue. Spearheaded localization efforts by developing a modular game architecture, cutting language integration time by around 30% and enabling language-specific features, including right-to-left support for Arabic and Urdu. Collaborated with artists, designers, and engineers to maintain a cohesive vision and feasibility, mentored junior team members through evaluations and feedback,

Senior Unity Engineer at TurboLabz

April 30, 2023 - July 25, 2025

Integrated Unity's Localization Package, enabling support for 8+ languages, expanding the game’s global reach and accessibility to diverse player bases, resulting in increased downloads. Built the customer support experience within the game, facilitating greater user engagement and accessibility to customer support services by integrating Zendesk SDK. Implemented and rigorously tested UI designs across 8+ platforms, leading to an increase in positive user reviews and around 15% reduction in reported UI-related bugs. Refactored and extended legacy code and Unity components, enhancing code maintainability by approximately 40% and improving game performance on mobile platforms. Led the development of key features, from identifying system requirements and partner dependencies to workload balancing, software implementation, engineering and testing.

Unity Engineer at Conovo Inc.

December 31, 2019 - July 25, 2025

Pioneered an innovative puzzle game algorithm using probabilistic AI in Unity (C#), creating a highly engaging experience with multiple configurations achieved by AI. Engineered a virtual reality (VR) demo using Unreal Engine (C++) showcasing core product functionality, enabling the sales team to secure a major project. Developed products in AR, VR, and 2D, practiced innovation and solved challenging and complex problems in Unity (C#).

Unity Engineer at GenITeam Solutions

September 30, 2018 - July 25, 2025

Engineered 15+ mobile games, boosting player retention through daily reward systems, engaging gameplay, and smooth animations, with three titles achieving over 1 million downloads on the Play Store. Designed and implemented a chunk-based procedural generation system with runtime spawning logic and object pooling for dynamic paths and obstacles in a bike-themed endless runner, enhancing replayability and optimizing performance. Developed and optimized gameplay mechanics for a diverse range of game genres, including RPG, farming, war, shooting, and driving simulations, delivering immersive and engaging experiences tailored to different player demographics. Spearheaded the development and implementation of AI systems for non-player characters, ensuring smooth and engaging gameplay. Applied software engineering expertise in the development of products throughout the development cycle; requirements identification, game testing, game & level designing and game programming.