YASİR YAZICI
Game Developer
I, Yasir Yazıcı, am a Game Developer living in München, Germany. While most of my professional experiences are based on Unity 3D, I have worked on various different projects like creating 3D Game Engine based on XNA.
My Bachelor's Degree is from Hacettepe University Statistics but my job has always been programming even at the years I was studying. My passion to programming and video games made me improve myself at these topics at the early years of my under-graduate education. Developing flash games, mobile games, making experiments on shaders or physics were some of these steps.
Currently I am working at Aesir Technologies as a Unity Game Developer and studying at METU Game Technologies to earn a master degree. You can download the shortened pdf version of my CV from the button below or scroll down more for the see it online.
ABOUT

MY ONLINE RESUME
Experience
Unity Game Developer ● Jan 2015 - May 2017
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Working as the only programmer on a confidential R&D game project, thus I worked at every possible subject
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Project is develop with Unity 3D and includes many low-level optimizations, architectural designs and custom implementations to achieve high performance at controlling thousands of entities even at low-mid devices
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Some implementations are like : meshes created realtime, high performance terrain with tools which provides easy manipulation, editor extensions for fast and straightforward level design, multiplayer system using low-level Unity API, shaders for satisfying custom needs, 2D physics collision detection and resolving, spationing for performance boost , new inspector with c# reflection and various gameplay feature
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As a side duty at the company, I successfully supervised 8-10 interns each summer, for developing fast game prototypes either letting them work individually or as a team of two (used Unity 3D and MonoGame)
Taleworlds Entertainment
Indie Software Developer ● Nov 2010 - Sep 2012
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Developed softwares for various companies according to their needs while studying for my bachelor’s degree
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Stock and sales tracking with barcode, restaurant automation, mass sms sending telephone book etc.
METU Technopolis ATOM
Indie Game Developer ● Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
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Developed ‘Pop to Save’ for iOS and Android app stores, and ‘Kübistik’ for Ministry of Education (Android) with a friend of mine as an indie group
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Pop to Save was the 1st Prize Winner of Dev2Win 2013 contest which was organized by Microsoft Turkey
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Worked on an online software for Mental Arithmetics education as my own project. It had its own easy to use lecture creator created with XNA. I also developed a web service with php for data transfer between the server and Unity application. Lectures were streamed online and it had other online features like adding friends, having achievements, receiving notifications and having global and local leaderboards
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I was assigned as a Mentor to guide developers at Google Social Entrepreneurship Hackathon Ankara and gave a lecture about game development at Ankara University ANOYGE Community Seminar
Pixofun
Unity Game Developer ● Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
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Involved at the development of Okey Türk (developed with Unity 3D) as an outsource programmerMinistry of Education (Android) with a friend of mine as an indie group
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Worked at the development of UI, server communications, Facebook integration, In-App purchases etc.
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Gave consultancy for helping the company to switch from Adobe Flash to Unity 3D
Indie Game Developer ● Jun 2007 - Current
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Game development is my greatest passion and developed several games since my late high school years
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I developed my own game engine at 2010 with XNA Framework, which had its own level design editor and custom render pipeline which had the combination of render features used at GTA IV and Crysis
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There are 2 interactive education games I made with Unity for science museums. One of them is even using Lego Mindstorm robots integrated with the application I developed to teach kids the programming basics.
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I really enjoy game jams and developed several really fun Unity games thanks to these great events
Aesir Technologies
Unity Game Developer ● May 2017 - Current
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Our project is developed with Unity 3D.
Education
Game Technologies (M.Sc.)
Middle East Technical University ● 2016 - Current
Working on “Visualization of Fractal Math Functions with Procedural Content Generation” for my thesis
Çankaya Milli Piyango Anatolian H.S. ● 2003 - 2007
High School
Hacettepe University ● 2007 - 2012
Statistics (B.Sc.)
CGPA : 2.80 / 4.00
TED Ankara College
Ahmet Cevdet Paşa P.S.
Primary School
By skipping the 1st grade, I graduated from primary education 1 year earlier
● 1996 - 2003
Skills
Game - Software Development
Design - Graphics
Non-Professional
Programming
C
C#
AS3
Lite-C
Java
HLSL
SQL
Military Service
Courses, Seminars and Activities
Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB) Young Entrepreneur Improving Programme, Certificate of Achievement
● Jul 2010
Global Game Jam 2011, 2nd Prize Winner of Turkey
● Jan 2011
● May 2011
8th International Statistic Students Colloquia İzmir, Participant
Global Game Jam 2012, Participant
● Jan 2012
● Nov 2012
Informatics Association of Turkey (TBD) IT Convention 2012, Game Marathon Participant
● Nov 2012
International Social and Mobile Game Workshop Ankara
● Nov 2012
Crytek CryEngine 3 Workshop Ankara
● Jan 2013
Global Game Jam 2013, Participant
● Apr 2013
Ankara University ANOYGE Community Seminar, Lecturer
● May 2013
Microsoft & METU Technopolis ATOM – Dev2Win 2013, 1st Prize Winner
● May 2013
Google Social Entrepreneurship Hackathon Ankara, Mentor
● Jun 2013
Eğitim Bilişim Ağı Educational Mobile Application Development Contest Ankara, Participant
● Jan 2015
Global Game Jam 2015, Participant
Languages
Turkish : Native Speaker
English : Advanced
○ METU Proficiency Exam 2015 - 92.00 / 100
(Multiple choice, Listening, Writing, Cloze Test)
○ YDS 2014 Autumn Term - 96.25 / 100
(Multiple choice, National Exam)
○ KPDS 2012 Spring Term - 87.50 / 100
(Multiple choice, National Exam)
Completed : Nov 2013 – Apr 2014
Turkish Armed Forces
Samsun Provincial Gendarmerie Command
Clerk of ‘Service and Guards Division’
Superior Service Certificate
2 Testimonials
Global Game Jam 2016, Participant
● Jan 2016
Acknex A8

Unity 3D


Visual Studio

XNA

Flash

3D Studio Max

Blender

Photoshop

GIMP