Nicolas Santamaria
Co-Founder at Bright Night Games
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolNicolas Santamaria is a Brussels-based co-founder and senior software engineer with eight years of professional experience building real-time, immersive experiences and tooling across Unreal Engine, web stacks, and C++. He leads CHIMPS.LAB and product development for Schoolboard, combining product ownership with hands-on technical leadership to deliver live AR/VR integrations and broadcast-grade visualizations. His background spans game and broadcast pipelines—shipping Unreal/ZeroDensity integrations for live TV, custom DMX/Artnet plugins, and JSON/interaction tools—demonstrating a blend of systems-level C++ skill and creative UI/UX sensibility. An entrepreneur at heart, he runs Bright Night Games and contributes practical open-source plugins that bridge hardware (DMX) and real-time engines. Outside work he’s learning animation, building furniture and a house, and balancing hands-on maker instincts with team-focused delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Programming, Bachelor in Programming at Haute Ecole de Bruxelles
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (6)
mustache10
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template-engine9
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javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
besanta/UEOpenDMX
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
besanta/UEJsonParser
May 2018 - Dec 2022
UE4 Plugin to handle JSON datas
Contributions:5 releases, 50 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 7 months
unreal-engineue4-pluginue4handlejson
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