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 (173)
magic-mouse10
dialogue-systems10
file-chooser10
spinner10
editor10
unity3d10
electron10
typescript10
dock10
vscode-extension10
gjs10
letter10
vscode10
gnome10
microsoft10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
RicardoEPRodrigues/magicmouse-hid
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
Magic Mouse 2 driver for Linux.
Contributions:4 releases, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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RicardoEPRodrigues/Bichux
Apr 2016 - Jun 2024
Shapeshifting endless runner small game
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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