Summary
David Ventura is a creative technology leader and CEO/Creative Director with 13 years of industry experience and two decades of product development across Japan and Sweden. He builds games and audio-driven experiences end-to-end, having led award-nominated titles like Backbeat and Hexagroove while coordinating global music collaborations and QA pipelines. A Carnegie Mellon MET postgraduate and trilingual author, he blends academic research and trade publishing with hands-on systems and middleware engineering from consoles to mobile. Former mobile music lead at Propellerhead/Allihoopa and creator of the open-source chiptune player GaMBL, he uniquely bridges music, sound emulation, and game systems. Known for forming and scaling technical teams through mentorship, code hygiene practices and developer rituals, he repeatedly turns cross-disciplinary ideas into shipped products. Comfortable switching between high-level product vision and low-level optimization, he combines artistic sensibility with rigorous engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Music Theory and Composition, Music Theory and Composition at Berklee College of Music
Master of Entertainment Technology, Virtual Reality and Motion Capture, Master of Entertainment Technology, Virtual Reality and Motion Capture at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at University of Virginia
English, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish