Ricardo Rodrigues
Senior Game Programmer at iliAD
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Rodrigues is a Senior Game Programmer and PhD-trained AI researcher in Lisbon with 11 years of experience blending game development and affective computing. He builds emotionally expressive virtual agents and production-ready gameplay systems using Unreal Engine, Unity and C++, and has implemented streaming and full-stack features with Go and React. Ricardo has led teams, taught game courses, coordinated infrastructure for student labs, and produced the medium-scale title Smashcart Ultra, showing both hands-on engineering and product sensibility. His research on artificial empathy for embodied conversational agents informs practical AI-infused game and tutoring prototypes, a less obvious bridge between academic rigor and commercial game engineering. Passionate about creating meaningful interactive experiences, he balances technical depth with mentorship and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Italian, French, Japanese, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (125)
file-browser10
dialogue-systems10
file-chooser10
linux10
unity3d10
electron10
typescript10
dock10
gnome10
gnome-shell10
driver10
jekyll10
react10
editor9
catalog9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
RicardoEPRodrigues/Bichux
Apr 2016 - Jun 2024
Shapeshifting endless runner small game
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
MRK-TDY/text-generation-webui
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 4 months
gradiolarge-language-modelsllama
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