VR/XR Engineer · Unity Game Developer · Technical Artist

Jacob Fletcher

Seven years building VR/XR in production — senior VR engineering at ACE, HoloLens and immersive prototypes at Microsoft. I work across gameplay, multiplayer, real-time 3D, technical art, and the tools that bring them together.

ACE Senior VR/XR Engineer · scaled 150 → 50,000+ monthly users
Microsoft HoloLens XR developer & senior technical artist

2026 Demo Reel

VR/XR gameplay, technical art, and real-time 3D from production work at ACE and Microsoft.

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About Me

I’m a creative technologist specializing in real-time 3D, VR/XR, and interactive experiences. Most of my career has been spent working at the intersection of engineering, technical art, and production — turning ideas into experiences that actually work in the real world.

Most recently, I was a Senior Software Engineer, VR/XR at ACE, where I helped develop and scale live-service VR experiences from roughly 150 users to almost 50,000 monthly users. Before that, I worked at Microsoft, building HoloLens experiences and immersive prototypes before moving into technical art and production for Azure’s executive communications.

My work covers everything from VR interaction, gameplay and multiplayer to rendering, 3D content, UI, tools, optimization, and backend systems. I’ve also shipped dozens of mobile games across iOS and Android and released several Unity Asset Store tools.

What I bring is the ability to move between disciplines when a project needs it. I can write the code, build the tools, solve the rendering problem, work with artists and designers, and help turn a rough idea into a polished, production-ready experience.

Work History

Senior Software Engineer, VR/XR · ACE

Jul 2023 – May 2026

VR/XR Photon Multiplayer Unity / C# Live Service

Joined this VR product at an early stage with roughly 150 users and helped scale it to 50,000+ monthly users by shipping production Unity features, stabilizing workflows, and improving front-end architecture.
Refactored major portions of the game from the ground up — improving maintainability, scalability, performance, and day-to-day iteration speed for gameplay, UI, and VR/XR systems.
Implemented Photon PUN multiplayer systems, VR interactions, customizable weapons, projectile behavior, player-facing UI, and internal gameplay tooling.
Built editor workflows, 3D assets, materials, and technical-art pipeline support that helped engineering, art, and product teams iterate faster on production-ready content.
Integrated Unity client code with Bubble services and supported the Bubble-to-AWS migration — subscriptions, user management, API integration, Git/Jira delivery, and production issue resolution.
Used AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT for code review, optimization passes, debugging support, and refactoring analysis while retaining final engineering ownership.

Senior Technical Artist & Producer · Microsoft

Jun 2020 – May 2023

Technical Art 3D / Motion Azure Comms

Supported executive-level Azure communications, quarterly all-hands, weekly fireside chats, video production, and high-visibility presentations — coordinating complex technical and creative requirements.
Owned end-to-end production workflows for live and recorded communications, balancing creative direction, technical setup, editing, asset delivery, stakeholder feedback, and deadline-driven execution.
Created motion graphics, 3D art, animation, rendered visuals, photo/video edits, and live-event assets using Maya, Cinema 4D, Blender, Adobe tools, OBS, and Teams broadcast workflows.

Unity Developer, VR/XR · Microsoft / Robert Half

Feb 2019 – Jun 2020

VR/XR HoloLens Spatial Computing

Built Unity-based HoloLens demos, immersive prototypes, 3D models, animations, rendered videos, and presentation-ready XR experiences alongside optical engineers, creative leadership, and product stakeholders.
Translated technical product concepts into interactive experiences and visual prototypes that communicated device capabilities, UX direction, and spatial-computing interaction models.

Lead Maintenance Mechanic A · Boeing

Jul 2008 – Feb 2019

Team Lead Robotics CNC Preventative Maintenance

Led a team of mechanics — assigning tasks, planning work, and coordinating day-to-day coverage.
Created preventative maintenance plans that kept production equipment running and reduced unplanned downtime.
Responded to reactive calls to repair robotics and CNC machines on the production floor.
Troubleshot issues with robotics and CNC machines, diagnosing faults and returning equipment to service.

Freelance Game Developer · Independent

2008 – Present

Over a decade of independent work across many projects. Created the Unity 2.0 Terrain demo for Unity's 2.0 release, shipped over a dozen independent mobile games, and released 2 successful Unity Asset Store assets.

Stagehand · Photographer · Cook · Luthier · Early Career

Jan 2004 – Jul 2008

Live Events Photography Hospitality Instrument Making

Worked as a stagehand setting up stage equipment for bands.
Photographer for hire, running my own studio in an art center.
Cooked at various sit-down restaurants.
Worked as a luthier building harps for Rees Harps.

Projects

Shipped products, games, and tools — from live-service VR to indie mobile titles and Unity Asset Store releases.

A shooter in a Quest headset aiming a tracked pistol at a steel target on a virtual range

ACE

Live-service VR shooting-sports training built in Unity — headset-based marksmanship on virtual ranges. Joined at roughly 150 users and helped scale the product to almost 50,000 monthly users.

Jul 2023 – May 2026

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Studio Legends

A game built from the ground up in Unity, featuring custom building and terrain systems. The techlog walks through the real-time systems behind it.

In development

Visit playstudiolegends.com →

AI-assisted

BookJake.com

My own booking and estimating site. Describe what you want built and get a number in under a minute; submit it and it becomes a written scope and a fixed-fee proposal — no sales call, no email gate. Work is priced as deliverables and milestones, with live availability from a calendar.

2026

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AI-assisted

Aupex.dev

A marketplace connecting companies with senior engineering, art, and production talent for project-based work. Every bid arrives as the same structured statement of work, so milestones carry their own hours, dates, and cost — the total is derived rather than asserted, and assumptions and exclusions are first-class fields agreed before work starts.

2026

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SOW Builder — a deliverables form on the left rendering a live statement of work preview on the right

AI-assisted

SOW Generator

A statement-of-work builder. Fill in parties, rate, and deliverables and it renders a formatted SOW live beside the form, totalling hours and cost as you type. Drafts with AI, and exports to PDF, Markdown, or JSON.

2026

Balencil

A one-touch mobile balancing game — keep a hand-drawn pencil upright against the wind. Unlockable pencil skins, an eraser currency, daily rewards, and leaderboards.

Date TBD

Overlap

A minimalist timing game — land each piece cleanly inside the ring without overlapping the last. Stars earned per run unlock alternate color themes and shape sets.

Date TBD

Sol Defender

An arcade space-defense game — hold off waves closing in on the sun along orbital lanes, spending Dark Matter on weapon and shield upgrades as the levels escalate.

Date TBD

Dollar Origami

A step-by-step guide to folding origami from dollar bills — models rated by difficulty and bill count, walked through one fold at a time.

Date TBD

Balloon Animals

A kids' app of balloon animals animated in 3D — twist-by-twist playback of each build, with simple controls for browsing the collection.

Date TBD

Ansel & Clair — an illustrated exploration scene with a camera tool and travel log prompts

Ansel & Clair: Jurassic Dinosaurs

An educational adventure app — explore an illustrated world, photograph what you find, and arrange the shots in a travel log to repair the ship and get Ansel and Clair home.

Date TBD

Project Stardust

A touch arcade game played across a night sky above a city skyline — trace arcs to catch falling stars and chain them into score multipliers before your lives run out.

Date TBD

2DVLS

2D volumetric lights and shadows for Unity, released on the Unity Asset Store — real-time light meshes with a custom editor for authoring them in the scene view.

Date TBD

QuickRopes

A Unity Asset Store editor extension for building ropes, chains, and cables — editable spline control points, rigidbody and joint tuning, and a procedural link/tube mesh renderer, all authored in the scene view.

2015

References

Aaron Lee

Founder · AceXR

Chris Klingler

CTO · AceXR

Sara Zin

Creative Director · Microsoft

Sadie Shields

Senior Design · Microsoft

Contact details available on request.