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Lisbon, Pt

Lisbon, Portugal

Unreal Engine 5 / C++ game tech and C# back-end development for DUNE: Awakening, directly working in-office with the Funcom Lisbon Engine team.• Matchmaking and Login systems development using C# and Azure Functions, Playfab & Storage.• Service integration (C++) on project's custom Unreal Engine fork.• Experience with Perforce, Unreal Game Sync, Jira and Confluence.Unity and C# performance analysis and optimization for Tinkertown with Headup Games, using Unity and console specific profilers.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

Full-Stack Game Development of Worlds FRVR, an online multiplayer crafting-based sandbox game that can be played on nearly any device through a web browser, made in JavaScript & TypeScript.As part of the Engineering team since the early stages of the project, I've collaborated with a growing distributed studio of 11 people located in Portugal, Denmark, Malta, the United Kingdom, and the USA, following a flexible Agile methodology. In terms of development pipeline and team management the main tools we make use of are Git, Notion.so, and Asana.In this role I have worked on both the client and back-end sides of the project, quickly attaining responsibility for several gameplay systems of which I was the main contributor.As a Software Engineer I have worked on:• Developing new and improving existing Gameplay Systems (e.g.: Multiplayer Races, Photo Mode, Player Movement, In-game Tutorial, Dynamic Animation Loading, etc.)• Improving and supporting the development of the proprietary WebGL engine used for the project.• Providing support throughout the entire Localization process of the game.• Converting multiple systems from JavaScript to TypeScript.• Integrating External Platform APIs (Such as Facebook Instant Games features).• Collaborating with stakeholders from the core publishing team, such as Analytics and Channels (External Partners) team.

Lisbon, Portugal

Faculty member for the "Human-Computer Interaction" course in the Information and Communication Networks Engineering degree @ Instituto Superior Técnico - Taguspark.During one semester, I had the opportunity to:• Lecture Practical Classes on the course, in which support for the multiple course projects was provided to second-year BSc. students.• Evaluate and grade course projects following defined criteria based on User Interface / User Experience best practices.• Provide optional clarification classes for students who required additional support.

Lisbon, Portugal

Research member working in the ID-GAMING (KA204-26439CE2) ERASMUS+ European project, A project whose main objective is to help people with Intellectual Disabilities and related professionals and relatives through the implementation of Serious Games for improving cognitive functions.As a Junior Researcher, I had the chance to:• Collaborate in the initial Kick-off sessions, joining project goal and workflow discussions, alongside other researchers from Portugal, Greece, Italy, and Spain.• Setting up the project's website using WordPress, following existing visual constraints for the project media materials.• Participating in semi-structured interviews and observing rehabilitation sessions through video conference with members of the Education Center for Citizens with Disability - Mira Sintra to establish requirements for the Serious Games to be developed within the scope of the project.

Lisbon, Portugal

Member and Coordination element in Game Development college student group in Instituto Superior Técnico.

Master'S Degree, Information Systems And Computer Engineering

Courses in: Info Visualization, Image Processing, Software Testing/Validation, Game Development, Game Design, AI in Games, IoT Interaction.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Systems And Computer Engineering