Augusto Godinho is a Principal Tech Artist with 12 years of experience blending VFX, technical art, and game-focused engineering across studios like Odyssey Interactive, Wildlife Studios and Aquiris. He pairs a formal background in computer systems and game technology with a master's-level grounding in electrical engineering, enabling a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between visual fidelity and algorithmic systems. Augusto has shipped production VFX and tooling while contributing backend improvements to popular open-source projects (e.g., enhancing login flows, browser options and interaction logic for the widely used InstaPy bot). Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he is equally comfortable prototyping shaders and building automation that scales artist workflows, and his trajectory shows a steady move from hands-on VFX to technical leadership. Notably, his work bridges research-grade AI interests at Motorola/Lenovo with pragmatic studio pipelines, reflecting a knack for turning experimental ideas into production-ready tools.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Superior de Tecnologia em Jogos Digitais Jogos Digitais, Superior de Tecnologia em Jogos Digitais Jogos Digitais at PUC Minas
Associate's degree Computer Systems Analysis, Associate's degree Computer Systems Analysis at ESTEC
📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:28 commits, 10 PRs, 39 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Augusto primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Instagram bot, focusing on improving the login process, adding options for browser selection (Firefox), and providing examples for their use. They also worked on enhancing the bot's features by adding functionalities such as tracking followed users, interacting with users based on their followers and following, and incorporating callback functions for improved interaction. Furthermore, the user added a utility function for formatting numbers and implemented random selection when following users.
Contributions:1 release, 193 commits, 100 pushes in 3 months
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Augusto Godinho - Principal Tech Artist at Odyssey Interactive