Khizer Khalid – Senior Unity & 3D Application Engineer, Berlin

A Senior Engineer with 10 years in games, 3D, XR and multiplayer. I’ve shipped 10+ games (one with 50M+ downloads), built runtime 3D and photoreal render pipelines, and spent 5 years at Soulside creating world‑building tools and a multiplayer XR shopping experience.

This virtual world is my portfolio.

Career

1. Ozi Technology

   Game Developer · Lahore (2015-17)

   Where it started. Shipped 5+ commercial 3D titles — vehicle sims and FPS — building gameplay, AI and animation systems.

   Unity, C#, NavMesh AI, Animation

2. Mindravel Interactive

   Software Engineer · Lahore (2017-18)

   Casual and hyper-casual games from prototype to publish; ran live updates on the #1 city sim in the UAE.

   Unity, C#, Live Ops

3. Tintash

   Senior Software Engineer · Scrum Master · Lahore (2018-20)

   Nail Salon 3D reached 50M+ downloads; Room Builder’s photoreal room previews shipped into Bed Bath & Beyond stores.

   Unity, C#, Three.js, 3ds Max

4. Soulside GmbH

   Senior Unity Engineer · led a cross-functional team · Berlin (2020-26)

   Owned a live 3D social app end to end for five years — world-building tools, Quest VR, 200-avatar rooms with voice.

   Unity, Firebase, Addressables, ReadyPlayerMe, Meta Quest

5. Independent Developer

   Berlin, since May 2026. Built this site; a VR project is in the works.

Projects

• Nail Salon 3D

  Tintash · Lion Studios · 50M+ downloads

  Engineered core mechanics and build-automation profiles for a hyper-casual title that reached 50M+ downloads. Tuned for low-end mobile while keeping the 3D feel snappy.

  Unity, C#, iOS, Android

  Store page

• Soulside

  Soulside GmbH · 2020–2026

  Live 3D social app, five years in production: branded worlds with shoppable product placements, creation modes streamed via Addressables, and rooms of 200 networked ReadyPlayerMe avatars with voice and text chat — 60 fps on mid-range phones with near-zero crashes.

  Unity, C#, Firebase, Addressables, ReadyPlayerMe, iOS, Android, Meta Quest

  Store page

• Zayed The Leader

  Mindravel Interactive · #1 in the UAE

  The #1-ranked 3D city-building simulation in the UAE. Extended the live game with new mini-games and live-ops content, owning store releases and updates end to end.

  Unity, C#, iOS, Android, Live Ops

  Store page

• Gulp.io

  Tintash · AI that feels live

  3D eat-and-grow game that feels like live multiplayer: 12–16 opponents driven by behaviour-tree AI with size-based targeting, pursuit, avoidance and growth tiers.

  Unity, C#, Behaviour Trees, iOS, Android

• Room Builder

  Tintash · Bed Bath & Beyond · in US stores

  3D spatial staging tool deployed cross-platform. Authored MAXScript configuration matrices to scale assets between 3ds Max workflows and the Unity runtime.

  Unity, C#, 3ds Max, MAXScript, Windows, macOS, WebGL

  Store page

• Nursery 3D

  buybuy BABY · Tintash · e-commerce 3D

  Shoppable 3D nursery-design tool for buybuy BABY — a Three.js / WebGL build with a pre-render pipeline compositing 100k+ product combinations into room scenes customers could shop directly.

  Three.js, WebGL, JavaScript

  Store page

• Novi — Visual IQ

  Tintash · 2019 finalist

  Developed an algorithmic hint mechanism evaluating 100k+ permutations on-device with stable frame budget.

  Unity, C#, Procedural Generation, Algorithmic Hints, iOS, Android

  Store page

• Merge Factories

  Mindravel Interactive · two titles, one engine

  Polished 2D idle clicker with a tuned virtual economy, grid-based merging, and smooth UI animation.

  Unity, C#, 2D, Android, Sprite Atlasing, Object Pooling

  Store page

• Color Dunk

  Mindravel Interactive · hyper-casual

  A hyper-casual mobile title built in Unity, shipped to Android and iOS with snappy one-tap mechanics and a polished color-splash feel.

  Unity, C#, iOS, Android

• Mr Pang

  Mindravel Interactive · arcade

  A mobile take on classic Pong rebuilt for touch input, with crisp paddle feel and arcade-style presentation.

  Unity, C#, iOS, Android

• Tarzen Swing

  Tintash · one-tap runner

  A hyper-casual one-tap runner where the character keeps running on a twisty road with constantly increasing speed — tap and hold for an appropriate swing. Shipped on Android and iOS.

  Unity, C#, iOS, Android

• Cube Space

  Tintash · game jam

  A small Unity prototype put together for an internal game jam — a focused exercise in shipping a playable demo end-to-end in a constrained timebox.

  Unity, C#

Contact

• [email protected]
• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Resume (PDF)