Diego Sarmentero is a seasoned game-tech founder and CTO with 15 years of experience building interactive systems across Unity and Unreal, currently leading Omega Point from Helsinki to redefine competitive gaming. He founded indie studio Mind Echoes and has a strong track record as a hands-on engineer—shipping gameplay and systems work, C++/Qt/QML UI improvements at Canonical, and production Unity code at Yousician and RedLynx. Diego is an active open-source contributor, notably improving front-end UI and preview functionality for Ubuntu's unity8 Dash and enhancing Ninja-IDE’s backend and theming, showing a rare blend of UI polish and developer tooling expertise. His background spans late-stage studio roles and early-stage startups, combining product-driven leadership with deep technical execution across engine-level and tooling code. He brings interdisciplinary interests in cognitive neuroscience, robotics and reinforcement learning that inform his approach to game design and AI-driven game systems. Pragmatic, creative and technically versatile, he thrives at the intersection of gameplay, systems engineering and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Algorithmic Graph Theory Course (dictated by Marcin Kamiński), Algorithmic Graph Theory Course (dictated by Marcin Kamiński) at Information Sciences College, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información Computación, Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información Computación at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Contributions:1999 commits, 37 PRs, 28 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to the development of the Ninja-IDE, a Python IDE. Their work included fixing bugs in code completion, implementing and improving styles, and integrating a theming feature with a custom dark theme and menu improvements. The commits demonstrate contributions across different modules within the project. The commits include changes to the GUI and improvements in style.
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the UI development of the `unity8` repository. Their work involved adding new UI elements and making changes to existing components within the Dash application. The code modifications include adjustments to QML files, specifically `DashApps.qml`, `VideoPreview.qml`, `PreviewDelegateMapper.qml` and various files within the `Dash/Apps` directory, indicating a focus on improving the user interface and preview functionalities.
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Diego Sarmentero - Co-Founder & CTO at Mind Echoes