Julien Balestrieri
Senior Software Engineer at Virtuos
Metz, Grand Est, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Balestrieri is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a strong 7-year background in video game development, skilled in C#, C++ and C and fluent in Unity as well as custom engines. He has shipped systems for titles like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Dead by Daylight and has led Unity teams at Small Creative before joining Virtuos. Having worked across France, Canada and Switzerland, he combines international collaboration with hands-on systems and tooling expertise. Julien’s formative education from Université de Lorraine and 42 Paris underpins a pragmatic, self-taught approach to complex game and engine problems. Notably, he moves comfortably between gameplay-focused Unity work and lower-level C++ systems, making him effective at bridging design intent and performant implementation.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor en Informatique et Systèmes, Programmation / développeur informatique, général, Bachelor en Informatique et Systèmes, Programmation / développeur informatique, général at ISETLicence d’Informatique, Programmation informatique, applications spécifiques, Licence d’Informatique, Programmation informatique, applications spécifiques at Universite de Lorraine42 Paris
French, English
Github Skills (4)
graphics-engine6
glsl4
webgl4
opengl3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jbalestr42/jbalestr42.github.io
Dec 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 3 months
vuepersonnalpersonnal-website
jbalestr42/GraphicsEngine
May 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:109 commits, 47 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 8 months
graphics-enginewebglopenglgraphicsglsl
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