Kyle Kukshtel
Engineering Manager, VM at Afterschool Studio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Kukshtel is an engineering leader and game technologist with 11 years of experience building tools, runtimes, and expressive game experiences across AAA, indie, AR/VR, and volumetric filmmaking. Currently leading Unity’s low-level VM team, he oversees CoreCLR-backed runtime development while maintaining Mono and IL2CPP, having previously driven .NET intrinsics and low-level C++ performance work. As a co-founder of Afterschool Studio and Scatter, he blends product leadership with deep Unity and C# expertise to ship content-first games and the widely used Depthkit volumetric toolkit. He’s specialized in data pipeline engineering and rapid prototyping, and contributes to popular open-source C# projects like Facepunch.Steamworks, improving Steam lobby and matchmaking integrations. Known for a multidisciplinary approach, Kyle moves fluidly between creative direction, tooling, and low-level systems to turn prototypes into polished products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computational Media, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computational Media at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
apim10
api10
game-development10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
steamworks10
dll9
unity3d8
gameplay7
cloud-computing7
videogames7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Facepunch/Facepunch.Steamworks
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Another fucking c# Steamworks implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on implementing and refining features related to the Steamworks API integration within the C# codebase. They added support for various client functions, including lobby creation, joining, and management. The contributions involve the design and implementation of classes and methods to interact with the Steamworks API, managing lobby data, and handling lobby-related events. Several iterations include improvements to lobby initialization and the implementation of lobby messaging features.
csharpsteamworksfacepunchunitygame
kkukshtel/castledb-unity-importer
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
Use CastleDB files in Unity with some extra sugar
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 2 months
unity3dunitysugar
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