Nikolas George

I lead a five-person team in building a multiplayer game in Unity.

I build multiplayer systems, game tools, and shipped projects.

I'm still a student

5-person

team I lead

10,000+

lines of networking

18,000+

downloads shipped

Secret

clearance held

Computer Science student at Southern New Hampshire University, GPA 3.83, graduating February 2028. I build things people enjoy: 18,000+ downloads across shipped projects. Previously a software intern at Naval Sea Systems Command. Seeking Summer 2027 software engineering internships.

GitHub

SELECTED WORK · 2019 – 2026

Personal work

Wire and Rifles

Project Lead · Feb 2026 – Present

16,500 lines C#

10,000+ networking lines

5-person team

Unity 6

A WW1 multiplayer prototype built around objectives and team coordination. I lead a five-person team and own the networking layer: server-authoritative state with typed SyncVars and client-side prediction, replicating tickets, capture objectives, class selection, and the down/revive flow across clients.

Beyond combat the systems include a fortification build economy - trench walls, sandbags, duckboards, barbed wire - with supply ticks and placement rules, six player classes, and runtime terrain digging.

The hard part: Roughly two-thirds of the codebase is networking. Movement and shooting are straightforward on their own; keeping clients agreeing on who is downed, who is reviving, and how many tickets remain under latency is the actual work.

Unity 6 · C# · FishNet (Tugboat transport) · server-authoritative · client-side prediction

MULTIPLAYER STATE FLOW

Client input

Prediction

Authoritative server

Typed SyncVars

Server-authoritative validation

The server verifies tool type, cooldown, origin, range, and structure targets before applying melee damage.

[ServerRpc]
public void RequestMeleeAttack(
    Vector3 origin, Vector3 hitPoint,
    NetworkObject targetObject, int structureId,
    DamageType damageType)
{
    if (damageType != DamageType.Shovel
        && damageType != DamageType.Axe)
    {
        return;
    }

    bool isAxe = damageType == DamageType.Axe;
    float cooldown = isAxe ? axeSwingCooldown : shovelSwingCooldown;
    float range = isAxe ? axeMeleeRange : shovelMeleeRange;

    if (isAxe && Time.time < serverNextAxeSwingTime)
    {
        return;
    }

    Vector3 approximateEyePosition =
        transform.position + Vector3.up * 1.6f;

    if (Vector3.Distance(approximateEyePosition, origin) > 2f
        || Vector3.Distance(origin, hitPoint) > range + 1f)
    {
        return;
    }

    if (structureId >= 0)
    {
        FortificationManager.Instance
            ?.ServerDamageStructureDirect(
                structureId, structureDamage, damageType, AssignedTeam, this);
        return

“Apex Protocol” · Overwatch Rework

Solo Project · Apr 2019 – Jan 2024

11,500+ views

5,000+ downloads

A one-versus-six Juggernaut mode for Overwatch, built in the Workshop's event-driven scripting engine. One player becomes the Apex, a heavily reworked hero, against six Hunters with their own rework, so I rebuilt 29 heroes twice with custom abilities across 307 rules and 10,000+ lines. Win conditions change by map type, and a comeback mechanic respawns every dead Hunter when the team completes an objective. When Overwatch 2 cut teams from 6v6 to 5v5, I re-tuned every hero against the smaller team and kept shipping.

Overwatch Workshop scripting · systems design · balancing · iterative release

View on Workshop.codes

Warhammer 3 Workshop Mods

Lead Developer · Nov 2024 - Present

13,211+ downloads

Post-launch support

Custom Total War: Warhammer 3 mods, released and maintained with post-launch support. Shipping is the easy half, the rest is fixing what breaks for real users and unblocking collaborators when implementation stalls.

Steam Workshop · scripting · release management

View on Steam Workshop

Discord Media Bot

Personal Project · Jun 2025—Present

Private server

Active maintenance

Built and maintain a bot for private-server media playback, integrating public APIs and third-party libraries. Small, but it stays running — which is its own kind of engineering.

Python · REST APIs · third-party integration

EXPERIENCE

Where I’ve contributed

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

Project Intern · Norco, CA

Jun - Aug 2022

Cleansed and prepared 10,000+ NATO datasets for machine learning workflows, improving data quality and downstream analytical readiness.

Reduced data redundancy across pipelines feeding downstream analysis.

Collaborated across the team to unblock data-preparation challenges while holding a Secret security clearance.

About Me

I got into programming through games. The first thing I ever built was an Overwatch Workshop mode I kept reworking for almost five years, and most of what I know about iterating on a system, taking feedback, and shipping again came out of that. It is still the reason I want to work on games.

What I like most is the part underneath the game: netcode, server authority, and the race conditions that only show up once real players are connected. On Wire and Rifles I wrote the Fish-Net networking layer, the server-authoritative shot validation, and the objective capture system, and I lead a team of five. Outside of games I keep a Python tool running on a schedule with unit tests and CI, because I would rather hear that something broke from a red build than from a user.

I am based in Norco, California, graduating December 2027, and available for a full-time internship May through August 2027. I played Overwatch seriously enough to peak Grandmaster, which is where most of my interest in game systems started, and I still end up modding things that never asked to be modded.

BACKGROUND

Education and languages

EDUCATION

Southern New Hampshire University

BS Computer Science · Software Engineering concentration · GPA 3.83 · Feb 2028

President’s List ×6 · Dean’s List ×6

Norco College

Computer Science coursework · transferred to SNHU, 2024

LANGUAGES

C++ · Python · Java · C# · JavaScript · SQL · Rust · Assembly

Comfortable moving between application code, data workflows, systems programming, and game development.

TOOLS & PRACTICE

Unity · .NET · OpenGL · Git · REST APIs · client-server networking · secure coding · Agile · SDLC

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area