João Marinheiro
Senior AI Programmer at Flying Wild Hog
Aveiro, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Marinheiro is a Senior AI Programmer with 11 years of experience building game engines, AI systems, and gameplay for AAA and commercial titles. He has shipped AI and ambient life features on projects like XDefiant and Star Wars: Outlaws, and now develops advanced AI systems at Flying Wild Hog. Comfortable in C++, multithreaded and networked environments, he has also architected core engine subsystems (rendering, animation, scripting) and worked across disciplines with designers and artists. An enthusiast for new tech and hardware, João pairs hands-on tinkering and hand-drawn art with a formal engineering background from Porto and TU Wien. Outside work he pursues historical fencing and brings that interest in realistic behavior and movement into his AI and gameplay design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMaster's Degree, Master's Degree at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoHigh School, High School at Escola Secundária Dr. Mário Sacramento
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
godot10
game-engine10
open-source10
game-development10
gamemaker9
tilemap9
csharp7
monogame7
pong6
gdscript5
terrain-generation5
deterministic4
heightmap4
terrain4
noise4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jocamar/CaravelEditor
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jocamar/Godot-Common-Game-Framework
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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