João Xavier
Technical Director at Studio Ellipsis
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Xavier is a technical director and game-engine veteran with 15 years building shipped titles across console, PC and mobile, including Star Wars Outlaws and Little Nightmares II. He blends hands-on engineering—gameplay systems, engines in Haxe and Java/OpenGL ES, backends and gameservers—with leadership roles from lead programmer to technical director. João has a track record of replacing and architecting core infrastructure for live services and cross-platform ecosystems, plus experience launching multiplayer mobile games and in-house tooling. Based in Lisbon, he mentors teams and drives delivery while keeping a maker’s mindset rooted in game design and music; when not shipping features he’s likely sketching systems ideas or playing guitar and drums.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master Informatics and Computing Engineering, Master Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoERASMUS Informatics Engineering, ERASMUS Informatics Engineering at INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
2,232reputation
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85answers
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android
top-5%
Github Skills (44)
ios9
objective-c9
android9
macos9
swift9
cocoapods8
xcode8
carthage7
xml6
database6
listview6
android-layout6
layout6
android-activity6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jcxavier/jcxavier.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
webpage
Contributions:5 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
webpage
jcxavier/badge-button
Oct 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 4 months
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