Gabriel Castañaza
Lead Game Designer at Nextern
Costa Rica
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGabriel Castañaza is a Lead Game Designer and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building products across gaming, healthcare, banking, and social networks. He blends hands-on backend and frontend development with product and technical leadership, having owned architecture, tooling choices, and delivery to optimize performance, time, and cost. Gabriel has led mobile and interactive-experience teams (React Native, iOS/Android, VR/AR) and founded/ran startups, giving him both engineering depth and entrepreneurial instincts. Based in Costa Rica, he currently ships mobile experiences while developing an indie game, Orbital Cat, reflecting a rare mix of creative art direction and pragmatic engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica
Github Skills (10)
alembic8
exporter8
react2
php1
yup1
react-native1
validation1
laravel1
validations1
input-validation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
soygcm/teki
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
soygcm/RespiremosJuntosIOS
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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