# Kai Liang Teo

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kailiangteo

I am an experienced senior software engineer and game developer for over a decade, specializing in Unity and C#. In my game career, I have released over 12 games in a period of about 5 years on multiple platforms. Calculator The Game is the most successful game with over 4 million downloads. 
My current skill sets are Unity, C#, Unreal Blueprints, Git and Photoshop.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Argus Labs
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Making games using Unity (C#) and World Engine (Go)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Senior Software engineer in Words with Friends team in charge of porting the game from React Native over to Unity
- Participated in on-call support, using Bugsnag, Splunk and Redshift(SQL) to troubleshoot, debug and provide timely investigation.
- Regularly participate in code reviews of other team members’ PRs
- Concepts used - Model-View-Viewmodel, Observer pattern, Binders, Deep linking and Image atlases
- Other technologies - Github,Jenkins, EOS, Jetbrains and JIRA

### Senior Software Engineer @ Unity
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Senior Software engineer in an ambitious project that involved technology assessment and integrating of different technologies together into a single product. 
- Customized and created a adaptive grid system using Unity’s UI Toolkit
- Integrated Agora with Unity as a party video chat feature
- Added and configured Unity’s video player and AVPro with Unity as a video playback and editing feature
- Concepts used - Model-view-controller and UIToolkit

### Software Engineer @ Digital Continue
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Queens, New York
- Principle Software Engineer in Drawn To Life 3: Two Realms released on 7th Dec 2020 on multiple platforms
- Software Engineer tasked with creating systems and turning design requirements into working prototypes and modules for games
- Working with Unreal, Unity Editor, Odin Inspector, Github and Spine
- Created comprehensive technical design documents for reference and archival

### Game Designer @ Simple Machine
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
- Lead Game Designer and C# Developer
- Lead Unity Developer
- Responsible for conceptualizing, designing, prototyping, developing, monetizing and releasing games for the company. 
- Familiar with installing and configuring various Ad network SDKs
- Utilize various Analytics like Facebook and Unity to analyze retention and on boarding values to increase number of players in released games
- Mentor Junior developers
- Implemented various monetizing methods like Ads, In App Purchases and Shopify 
- Games Released (most are featured on Apple App Store and Google Play Store)
Calculator: The Game - Designer & Developer, over 3 million downloads 
Squares 2 (Update) - Developer
Tweet Star - Designer & Developer
Pop the Lock (Update) - Developer
Lucky 21 - Developer
Combi - Quality Assurance and Release
Digits (Update) - Developer
Even Up (Update) - Developer
Circadia (Update) - Developer

### Manager, IT Security @ ING
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | singapore
- Team leader for user administration team based in Manila.
- Instructor for IT security concepts and policies for Asia region.
- Responsible for ensuring bank applications fit the policies and criteria that protect the bank from external and internal attacks as well as the government regulations.

### Senior Analyst @ ING Bank N.V
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
- Manager of Security Administration team charged with performing user account
- IT Risk assessment of applications
- External connection reviews
- IT Risk forecasting
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP analysis) and various project support as IT Security consultant.

### Business Analyst @ ING Bank N.V
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
- Baseline Team leader
- Implemented change requests, managed enhancement projects
- provided 3rd level support for 10 major applications. 
- Managed a team of 5 offshore developers.
- Performed Project Management tasks such as testing and ensuring project deliverables were on time and on target.

### Senior Development Engineer @ Welcome RealTime
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
- Developed customized features in the company's proprietary point of sales system to address a global client's needs.
- Managed offshore developers as the Team leader.
- Liaised with multinational co-workers in software development.

### Documentum Consultant @ Hewlett Packard, Singapore
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
- Worked with global HR groups and assisted in unifying website standards for HR's personnel management site.
- Coordinated with development teams from the US and France.
- Developed solutions using Documentum and assisted in global deployment.

### Senior Consultant @ NCS Pte. Ltd
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005
- Developed IT solutions for clients using technologies such as Java, .NET.
- Prepared and presented milestone deliverables to clients for several multi-million dollars regional projects.
- Developed and demonstrated solution prototype at tender presentation which resulted in a multi-million dollars project with the Health Science Authority of Singapore.
- Received the SingTel Excellence award for outstanding performance.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Game and Interactive Media Design
New York University

### Bachelor with Merit in Applied Science (Computer Engineering)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

### Anglo Chinese Junior College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kai-liang-teo-35a7a54
- Website: https://erictkl.wixsite.com/portfolio

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Last updated: 2026-04-01