Summary
Jairo Nieto is an award-winning creative executive and co-founder with 12 years of senior leadership in games and interactive entertainment, now leading Bacon Games as CCO. He has built and scaled studios across LATAM—including co-founding Brainz and guiding its acquisition by Jam City—and most recently helped shape a16z-backed Rough House Games’ award-winning arena battler, Champions Ascension. Equally at home with design and code, he brings hands-on software engineering skills (Python, JavaScript) and Google Cloud expertise to creative product development. Based in Bogotá, he blends entrepreneurial grit, publishing experience, and a track record of products enjoyed by millions, often earning recognition from Apple, Google and industry press. Less obvious: his early academic roots as a systems engineering student and teaching assistant in large-scale programming underscore a rare mix of technical depth and creative leadership.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
English, Spanish