Unity is all about sharing, but some of us like to share a little more than others.
Our in-house evangelists are a crack team of tireless advocates and educators who make it their mission to connect with the Unity community all over the world, spreading the word and spreading the love. You can find us at trade shows, user group meetings, game jams, customer offices, and even your living room if you ask nicely enough.
Keijiro Takahashi
Japan
Twitter: @_kzr
Keijiro has worked in the Japanese game industry for more than ten years and has extensive experience with console and mobile game development methodologies. He joined Unity in 2012, and currently teach classes, writes books and helps people to make great games with Unity.
Hiroki Omae
Japan
Twitter: @pigeon6
Hiroki is based in Japan and works for the good of the Unity community. Prior to joining Unity, he spent 5 years in the Japanese game industry working primarily on internal engine development before moving on to become an indie developer and make his own games. Hiroki’s passion is improving game development, and when he’s not at his computer he also enjoys cycling, snowboarding and canyoning. Hiroki is a huge game jam enthusiast.
Jay Santos
Latin America
Twitter: @jayunity3d
Jay started using Unity in early 2010. Before that he worked with game and application development for mobile platforms where he used Qualcomm's BREW technology between 2002 and 2007. Jay is the Field Engineer and Evangelist for Latin America. He works with customers, universities and local resellers, as well as holding training sessions, workshops and presentations at events throughout the continent.
Carl Callewaert
The Americas
Twitter: @CarlUnity
Carl’s enthusiasm for gaming builds on 10 years of production and evangelism experience and he loves sharing that enthusiasm with the Unity community. Prior to Unity, Carl worked on AAA and indie games and as a contract worker for Autodesk Education.
Joe Robins
EMEA
Twitter: @Joe_Robins
Joe Robins has been using Unity since before the Windows Editor was released in Unity 2.5. He joined Unity in 2009 back when there were around 25 people at the company and has filled a variety of roles. Currently, Joe is working on the marketing side of the business handling game jams and events and traveling to spread the word about Unity.
Kelvin Lo
Taiwan
Kelvin has spent over 10 years working as a game producer in Taiwan. He is an enthusiastic gamer himself and has an extensive multimedia industry network. Kelvin is a passionate Unity advocate and wants to share his experience and knowledge, to continue to learn new things and to help anyone who wants to make great games using Unity.
Rustum Scammell
Malaysia
Twitter: @rustumscammell
Rustum Scammell has been making games for more than 10 years. He owns Craft Colony, a game production & consulting company. He is a games technology generalist and takes a holistic approach to game development. He has been developing in Unity since 2009. Rus is an MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge (IPCC) winner. In 2012, he released Penyu the Turtle, a top‐down shooter for iOS. He also launched and managed Malaysia’s first online portal for game assets. Previously, he was Technical Art Director at Big Bad Robots and Senior 3D Artist at GameBrains. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Francis Lauzon Duranceau
Francis started his career over 10 years ago as an embedded Software Engineer in the field of automotive and robotics. Later on, he moved toward gaming industry with stops at Electronic Arts, Autodesk and as a freelance developer. Now, he's a Field Engineer at Unity and is helping other game developers to succeed.
Arturo Nunez
Latin America
Twitter: @ArturoNereu
Arturo Núñez is a game developer from Mexico City. Before joining Unity, he was working at the independent game studio Phyne making mobile games...with Unity. He want’s to share his passion and knowledge with every game developer in the Latin America region and help them create successful businesses and amazing games. Arturo is a big fan of soccer, tacos and movies.
Josh Naylor
EMEA
Twitter: @joshnaylor
Joining Unity as a graduate in Computer Science, Josh’s love for Unity led him down the path of getting a job telling everyone how awesome it is. He spends his days helping our users in EMEA, showcasing new features, delivering training and writing tech blogs. By night he develops his own 2d games. #madewithunity of course.
Valentin Simonov
EMEA
Twitter: @valyard
Valentin Simonov has got 15 years of web and game development behind him. He made his first steps with Flash 2 and gradually moved to Unity over the years. Before joining Unity Technologies Valentin spent 4 years applying the technology to interactive installations and digital art where he developed necessary skills and pragmatic approach to fixing critical issues. He spoke at numerous events (including 4 Unite conferences), translated a book about Unity to Russian, teaches students and supports open source projects. Since joining the Unity team, the search of solutions for complicated technical issues and sharing information about multiple advantages of the engine have become his main duties.
Liming Zhang
China
Twitter: @Liming_Z
Liming started his career in 2006 as a game engine developer. Four years later he joined Autodesk and participated in developing a unified graphics engine. Before joining Unity, he was a game developer and made a FPS game using Unreal Engine until Unity became his favorite game engine. Now he works as Field Engineer and helping other developers who is using Unity.
Yasuyuki Kamata
Japan
Twitter: @kamayuki_fs
Before Yasuyuki joined Unity, he enjoyed developing social browser games. Meanwhile, he took an active role in the game development community, especially around Unity. He joined Unity in 2013 as a Web Developer. However, he stayed heavily involved in several mobile game development events, like game jams and seminars. Now, he mainly supports mobile game developers, and evangelizes Unity Ads to developers all across Japan.
Mark Schoennagel
The Americas
Twitter: @unity3dmarks
Mark Schoennagel comes to Unity as an avid gamer with a strong technical background in 3D Animation for both film and games. For nearly 20 years Mark had been the lead evangelist for Softimage 3D, enjoying a front-row seat during the renaissance of the 3D industry. From witnessing the humble beginnings of the first ray-traced spheres and cubes all the way through to today’s modern blockbuster films and AAA game titles, Schoennagel has seen it all! When not pushing the limits of 3D, Mark enjoys Formula 1 racing, photography and most of all, driving his personally restored vintage Volkswagen 21 Window Bus around Redondo Beach California where he resides.
Andy Touch
EMEA
Twitter: @andytouch
Since adding physics to a cube and watching it bounce, Andy has been hooked on experimenting with Unity and showing off what it can do; to new users and the current community He loves to create interactive 3D art demos with the game engine and also enjoys taking part in game jams & hack days. Prior to joining Unity, he taught game design and development to higher education students
Johaness Reuben
South East Asia, Oceana and India
Johaness "Joh" Reuben has been in game development for more than 15 years. The Technical Art Director for GameBrains, one of Malaysia’s premiere game development companies having shipped numerous titles on multiple platforms. He has also been involved in game art training, lecturing and consulting for some of Malaysia’s prominant game development universities. His expertise is in digital art production techniques, processes and methodologies for multiple gaming platforms and media and is dedicated to the pursuit of interactive and technical processes of game development and art.
Gukhwan Ji
South Korea
Gukhwan worked as an artist before he joined Unity. He has worked on Motion graphics, 3D animation and also in many different areas. Presently, he is teaching Unity mainly to artists and designers and has also published a book geared towards how Unity can benefit its users on a higher level. He's making various sample projects and performs game making workshops for many people.
Youngho Lee
South Korea
Youngho has been a game and non-game developer for a while before joining Unity. He is highly interested in education and non-game markets and is passionate about consulting both education and non-game developers. He's been a vocal in a band he created with fellow developers and is very talented.
Jesse Smith
Americas
While earning a masters degree in Computer Graphics and Animation in 2008 Jesse Smith began his game development career by joining WMS as a software engineer in the Advanced R&D department. Over his 6 years with WMS he advanced to the role of Lead Software Engineer and used Unity extensively to make prototypes, proof-of-concepts and tech demos. His current role with Unity as a Field Engineer allows him to apply his knowledge to help Unity users create great games.