Skills | Bennet Vella

Game Client Development

Production Unity client engineering spanning gameplay features, engine-facing systems, rendering-sensitive workflows, and platform integration.

Key areas

Production Unity systems Gameplay, camera, package, and runtime work for shipped mobile titles.
Client-service features Authentication, UGC, cloud save, and bootstrap flows across gameplay-adjacent services.
Platform integration Release-minded client work with Steam, store, and service connectivity constraints.
Performance-minded R&D Shaders, mesh generation, renderer experiments, and data-oriented runtime patterns.

Service-side delivery across gameplay-adjacent backend APIs, authentication and commerce integration, and resilient storage/upload pipelines.

Key areas

Steam auth and purchasing Platform authentication and purchase service integration for PC release support.
UGC services User-generated content flows with authentication, storage, and reliability hardening.
App Store Connect integrations Async leaderboard and challenge flows tied into app store service boundaries.
Contract-led service APIs OpenAPI-guided backend work for clear client, service, and storage handoffs.

Enterprise and gameplay-adjacent integration delivery focused on data movement, orchestration layers, transformation logic, and reliability.

Key areas

Large-scale, high-load capability Integration patterns designed around throughput, reliability, and production pressure.
Data transformation Mapping, validation, and message-shaping work across enterprise payloads.
Client integration layers Application-facing integration points that keep consumer contracts clear.
Business and warehouse layers Process, system, and data warehousing paths for multi-layer integration flows.

Operational engineering for deployability and reliability, from containerized single-VM workflows to Kubernetes Helm-driven platform rollouts.

Key areas

Automated testing and validation Checks and validation gates that keep deployment readiness visible.
Multi-environment support Repeatable local, staging, and production-oriented runtime patterns.
Deployment operations Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm workflows for reliable service rollout.
Monitoring alerts Operational alerting paths that make production issues easier to spot and triage.

Git evangelist and workshop host for Git and GitHub, focused on practical workflows, repository governance, clean history, and team enablement.

Key areas

Lightweight Git workflows Practical, robust setups that scale from small teams to larger delivery groups.
Repo setup for security Branch protection, rulesets, and CODEOWNERS patterns that make safeguards explicit.
Commit hygiene Judicious squash vs true merge choices, rebasing, and conflict resolution support.
Coaching with workshops Training power users and everyday contributors on Git and GitHub workflows.