Nicolas Rivarola Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Design and plan game development roadmaps.
• Use agile/kanban and modern industry standards for collaboration and progress tracking.
• Keep a mindset of quality over quantity and community first when making decisions.
• Handle the business aspect of owning a game company: taxes, documents, contracts, website, etc.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Implemented a fast-paced arcade game for mobile devices using C#/C++ & GDScript.
• Designed a performant and responsive game that can run on incredibly low-spec devices.
• Implemented a fully-fledged obstacle system with complex obstacles that interact with everything.
• Implemented an in-app purchases system that can detect the platform it's running on.
• Implemented a reward-only advertisement system.
• Currently implementing an online system using Firebase for user data storage and publicly shown info such as leaderboards.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Owned and participated in making an official student program for Morgan Stanley.
• Visited schools to do presentations, answer student questions and recruit.
• Interviewed, onboarded and trained all students on how to work in the firm: security, internal technologies, soft skills and SRE principles.
• Took a more managerial role in projects I owned, dividing my time and priorities daily to continue delivering on both fronts.

Montreal, Canada Area

• I gained expertise in automating and tooling to support production teams based on SRE principles.
• Started leading projects for cross-functional teams where I take an agile approach constantly delivering, refining and improving through sprints and client demos.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Created a framework to emulate a market for a high-frequency trading algorithm.
• This algorithm had multiple protocols with significantly different behaviour from my past experience. It required highly performant hardware to test and efficient code to have realistic results for testing.
• Created some testing coverage to guarantee federal compliance and handed off to dev team to own.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Created, maintained and designed multiple tests to guarantee federal compliance with multiple trading algorithms.
• Regularly held the role of shepherd in the process of regression tests, fixing failures due to bugs/new features by dev.
• Improved the mocked market framework as new functionality was required.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Implemented a game with physics as its core mechanic.
• Created all sorts of game objects that interacted with each other in fun ways. EX: the fan would push objects and turn off candles.
• Implemented anti-cheating using various techniques of encryption and memory management.
• Implemented in-app purchases.
• Tested on multiple mobile devices for performance and playability.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Wrote and implemented core gameplay mechanics and features.
• Programmed using C# in Godot.
• Implemented a modular system to equip different actives/passives that would affect the player in different ways.
• Implemented an automated drag-and-drop action system to quickly create mobs.
• Implemented a map creator tool that allowed us to use the tilemap in Godot and quickly save and load different levels.
• Implemented a generic item system with support for CSV/JSON input for quick stat balancing.

Montreal, Canada Area

- I developed expertise in quickly and efficiently troubleshooting complex technical issues for business customers.- I honed my communication skills, explaining technical concepts clearly and de-escalating situations. - I learned to work well under pressure, staying calm and focused even in high-stress situations.Customer service was the key aspect of this.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Computer Science, Computer Science