Chris Pope

Chris Pope

Chris Pope

Chris Pope

Chris Pope

Chris Pope

Engineering Leader

Visionary engineering leader with 15+ years at Unity, scaling global teams, delivering multiplayer platforms used by millions, and accelerating production and business strategy. Proven track record of driving organisational transformation, embedding elite engineering practices, and creating measurable commercial impact. 

  • Building and scaling high performing global engineering organisations

  • DORA & Metric adoption culture 

  • AI coding assistant adoption achieving 95% acceptance of AI-generated code suggestions 

  • Defining technical strategy for developer platforms 

  • Converting engineering excellence into customer adoption, ARR, and ecosystem growth 

Visionary engineering leader with 15+ years at Unity, scaling global teams, delivering multiplayer platforms used by millions, and accelerating production and business strategy. Proven track record of driving organisational transformation, embedding elite engineering practices, and creating measurable commercial impact. 

  • Building and scaling high performing global engineering organisations

  • DORA & Metric adoption culture 

  • AI coding assistant adoption achieving 95% acceptance of AI-generated code suggestions 

  • Defining technical strategy for developer platforms 

  • Converting engineering excellence into customer adoption, ARR, and ecosystem growth 

Tools

Unity

GitHub

Jira

Slack

ChatGPT

Visual Studio Code

Experience

Nov 2025 - Present

Unity Technologies ApS

Senior Partner Engineering Manager

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Feb 2025 - Nov 2025

Unity Technologies ApS

Senior Engineering Manager

Own the strategy, delivery, and operational health of Unity’s Multiplayer Services, covering Relay, Lobby, Matchmaker, and the Common Multiplayer Backend for Distributed Authority. 

  • Lead a global team delivering live service infrastructure supporting millions of players. 

  • Introduced DORA performance tracking (Deployment frequency, Change lead time, Time to deploy, Change failure rate, MTTR) to improve operational transparency and reduce escaped failures. 

  • Defined and aligned KPIs for engineering health, velocity, and incident response, creating data-driven accountability across the team. 

  • Improved cycle time by 68%. Time to first review accelerated by 69%. 

  • AI coding assistant adoption achieving 95% acceptance of AI-generated code suggestions 

Feb 2024 – Feb 2025

Unity Technologies ApS

Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Leading a twenty eight engineering organisation with three direct report engineering managers, delivering scalable multiplayer engine solutions.

  • Revamped Agile workflows and Jira based roadmap planning, improving delivery and predictability.

  • Collaborated with QA to launch feature based test plans, increasing test coverage by 55% and reducing post release incidents by 33%.

  • Applied Root Cause Analysis and Bisection methods to slash escaped regressions by 73% and total regressions by 94.29%.

  • Defined and enforced bug quality KPIs, eliminating high severity defects over a sixth month window.

  • Decreased long standing incident triage backlog by 100% and cut total issue backlog by 60%.

  • Proactively monitor and mitigate risks, capacity, and resource needs in alignment with objectives.

  • Lead cross team initiatives to foster collaboration and celebrate milestones, improving morale and productivity.

  • Experienced in handling ambiguity, shifting priorities, organisational challenges, and capacity restrictions.

  • Successfully delivered the end to end Multiplayer Engine and Services release for Unity 6 (Oct 2024), on schedule and aligned with company objectives.

May 2023 – Feb 2024

Unity Technologies ApS

Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Unified two disparate engineering teams under a single technical vision, improving cohesion and delivery focus.

  • Defined a new twelve month engineering roadmap, aligning priorities with company OKRs and tech debt reduction goals.

  • Championed Agile methodologies to increase delivery predictability.

  • Released multiple Netcode patch updates and feature enhancements, improving performance, stability and reliability.

  • Cultivated a culture of peer reviews, trust, and ownership, contributing to a measurable boost in team morale.

October 2020 – May 2023

Unity Technologies ApS

Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Managed globally distributed teams and engineering managers during Unity’s strategic focus on multiplayer technology.

  • Built and led the team behind Boss Room, a multiplayer sample project adopted by 50,000+ developers for cross-platform learning.

  • Established Unity’s first “docs-as-code” open-source SDK documentation model.

  • Championed scalable practices across development, testing, and deployment phases, improving delivery consistency and cross-functional collaboration.

July 2017 – October 2020

Unity Technologies ApS

Manager, Solution Engineering, EMEA

Responsibilities and Achievements:

  • Directed a high-performing team that onboarded hundreds of studios, contributing to over $ 11 million in annual recurring revenue.

  • Collaborated with Legal to create a read-only source code license, unlocking a new revenue stream generating [$1 million+] annually.

  • Defined and tracked KPIs that enhanced client impact and internal service levels.

  • Forged strategic relationships with CTOs at King, Supercell, and Ubisoft, enhancing Unity’s positioning across AAA studios.

  • Rolled out Solution Selling across the Sales org, leading to increased customer satisfaction and shortened sales cycles.

April 2013 - July 2017

Unity Technologies ApS

Technical Account Manager

  • Served as a key technical advisor to clients across EMEA and North America, helping drive Unity engine adoption through tailored evaluations.

  • Supported cross-functional efforts between engineering, product, and sales, influencing go-to-market strategies and customer success outcomes.

December 2009 – April 2013

Unity Technologies ApS

Test Engineer

Led testing and release management for Unity's WebPlayer plugin, achieving a 96% install success rate on custom install pages developed for clients like EA, Facebook, Nickelodeon, Codemasters, and NASA JPL.

© Christopher Pope

© Christopher Pope

© Christopher Pope

© Christopher Pope