André Santiago
Lead Game Developer at Ninestudios
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAndré Santiago is a Lead Game Developer based in North Holland with 11 years of experience building backend systems, gameplay mechanics, and full-stack game infrastructure across indie studios and scale-ups. He has progressed from backend roles into technical leadership, shaping backend architectures and dev tools for games at Mindera and CoolGames before taking on lead developer roles at Ninestudios and Linx Interactive. His background in bioinformatics and early research work reveals a data-driven, analytical approach to game systems and tooling that often blends scientific rigor with practical engineering. André has hands-on experience running infrastructure and operations for production games as well as designing medical-education games, signaling an ability to navigate regulated or complex domains. Colleagues know him as a continuous learner and collaborator who values mentorship and shipping robust, performant services.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics at Universidade do MinhoBachelor's degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (38)
image-processing6
depot6
chat6
tensorflow6
wordpress6
python6
woocommerce6
discord6
biomedical-text-mining5
biomedical5
markdown5
mining4
windows4
uwp4
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ampacs/ubiquitous-potato
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:52 pushes, 29 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 2 months
InfamyKing/mama-game
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 23 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
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