Leandro Rodrigues Silva

Game developer with focus on software architecture and over 8 years of experience, I have worked on projects ranging from small to large scale, indie to commercial games, solo to big development teams. These experiences have provided me with a wide range of skills as a programmer, including game mechanics, game AI, design patterns, dependency injection, tools development, performance optimization UI, physics, and unit tests, as well as leadership skills such as mentoring junior developers, architecture implementation, managing code reviews, etc.

Game Developer at ARVORE Immersive Experiences (2022-10 – 2026-04)

• Developed a Mixed Reality mode for Yuki(Meta Quest, HTC Vive, Steam, Playstation VR), dealing with complex spatial mapping, performance optimization, integration of newly released APIs and other challenges due to few or no documentation.
• Developed Universal Monsters Arena and Blumhouse Horrorverse(Meta Quest/mobile), games for Meta Horizon Worlds, facing several challenges due to features still under development, little documentation and many platform limitations.
• Worked as AI programmer for The Boys: Trigger Warning(Meta Quest, Playstation VR) developing both core and secondary AI systems, as well as tools to help non-programmer contributors to safely modify related features of the game.
• Collaborated with the company programming team presenting talks on technical topics such as Dependency Injection, HTN and Unit Tests.

Game Developer at Player Legacy (2021-07 – 2022-07)

• Developed and launched a Ryzer: The Reflectors Path(desktop), handling gameplay systems and tools, UI building, Steam integration and other aspects, focusing on performance and scalability.
• Took responsibility for every technical decision related to our games.
• Created a framework to be used as a base for future games from the studio, which included gameplay systems, core features and editor tools.

Game Developer at Pixodust (2021-02 – 2021-04)

• Developed casual mobile games for Android and iOS, more specifically Merge Mansion, implementing its first core systems, UI and integrating in-house/third party tools.
• Integrated unit tests for all gameplay features.

Game Developer at QMedia (2018-10 – 2021-02)

• Developed QPlay(Android and iOS), a platform initially made in Unity that worked as a hub of Augmented Reality games, actively implementing core features, back-end and UI building.
• Created several games and AR interactions for various clients, which fomented the platform.
• Fully supported the second version of the app, made natively through Unity as Library(Uaal), developing on its "Unity-side".
• Created a collection of extensible scripts to allow the development of games with different mechanics without needing to update the app in store.
• Documented systems and tools that facilitated the implementation of new gameplay features by new developers.

Associate Degree in Digital Games – Faculdade de Tecnologia do Estado de São Paulo (2014-01 – 2017-12)