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Kara
Preston

Software Engineer & Game Programmer

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About Me

I am a versatile software engineer with 3 years of professional experience across game development, full-stack web development, backend services and quality engineering. I have extensive experience working within fast-paced cross-functional teams, across both startup and corporate environments, taking ownership of features and quickly adapting to new and cutting-edge tools and frameworks. I am passionate about actively contributing to an engaging and collaborative company culture.

Experience

Software Engineer

Mojiworks
Apr 2025 - Jun 2026Click to expand
  • -Build gameplay systems and responsive UI for games on emerging social platforms.
  • -Implement synchronous and asynchronous multiplayer features.
  • -Entrusted with feature leadership for consumer-facing features, owning them end-to-end with significant product and design responsibility, while collaborating closely with product managers and designers.
  • -Use analytics to iterate on the user experience and inform product decisions.
  • -Lead the UX for key live-ops features such as push notifications and in-app purchases, shaping both the design and implementation.
  • -Develop scalable backend systems, APIs and Redis-based data storage supporting thousands of concurrent users.
  • -Contribute to a multi-agent, AI-driven simulation system.
  • -Work directly with platform partners on pre-release platform features.
  • -Support BETA rollout through community interaction and moderation

Software Engineer, Quality

Unity Technologies
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025Click to expand
  • -Performed project-driven and exploratory testing to identify defects in the Unity Editor.
  • -Developed internal game projects to dogfood the Unity Engine and reproduce real-world issues.
  • -Executed release acceptance testing for Unity versions and internal tooling.
  • -Investigated and documented bugs, conducting regression testing to identify the first affected version.

Software Engineer, Quality Intern

Unity Technologies
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023Click to expand
  • -Used Blazor and ASP.NET web frameworks to build the front and back end of an internal site for monitoring release quality.
  • -Developed internal game projects within the Unity Engine to assess the quality of different areas.
  • -Crafted and executed manual and automated test suites.

Projects

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rTown

rTown is a massively social city simulation where communities democratically vote on player-made proposals to turn collective imagination into evolving cities.

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Guild of Thieves

Join friends in a surreal fantasy world to recover loot in co-operative action-adventure-rpg gameplay. Become the richest party in the Thieves Guild!

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Hatch Cats

Hatch Cats is a kitty-breeding game designed for Reddit.

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Single Quality Metric

An internal site used to calculate and display the quality of the Unity Engine between different versions.

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Unity Prototype Projects

A selection of projects created internally at Unity to test the engine. I only have permission to show a small selection of these.

Kara Preston

Hello! I am an experienced UK-based Software Engineer with 3 years of professional experience.

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