Romain Tisserand
Senior Head Of R&D at Playdigious
Nancy, Grand Est, France
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Tisserand is a senior R&D leader and serial entrepreneur with 13 years of professional experience and over 17 years in the video games industry, currently heading R&D at Playdigious from Nancy, France. He combines hands-on full-stack and backend engineering with product leadership, having co-founded and scaled DotEmu and later led engineering and porting efforts for notable titles like Evoland, Dead Cells and Wonderboy. Technical strengths include cross-platform emulation, game porting, and building bespoke server and ad-playable infrastructures, alongside contributions to open-source projects such as Batocera where he improved game metadata handling and video rendering. Known for diving into low-level problems—from reverse engineering and virtualization to embedded and kernel-adjacent work—he balances pragmatic engineering with strategic team leadership.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Cycle préparatoire polytechnique, Cycle préparatoire polytechnique at Institut national polytechnique de LorraineTechnician Telecommunications, Technician Telecommunications at IUT Nancy Brabois / Génie des Télécommunications et RéseauxEngineer Software engineering / Embedded Systems, Engineer Software engineering / Embedded Systems at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
English, French
Github Skills (13)
data-handling10
c-language10
metadata10
cprogramming-language10
meta10
emulation9
opengl-es9
software-distribution8
auto-release8
graphics-programming8
buildr8
codebuild8
shader8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
batocera-linux/batocera.linux
Jan 2017 - Jun 2021
batocera.linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 1863 commits, 1556 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to improving the emulation software, bumping the project to newer versions. The commits showcase the user's focus on fixing code issues. The contributions include code optimizations and improvements for the emulators.
linuxbatocera
batocera-linux/batocera-emulationstation
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 46 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the `batocera-emulationstation` repository by making changes to the core game metadata handling and rendering logic. This involved modifying the `MetaData`, `Gamelist`, and `TextureResource` classes to optimize gamelist saving and add/update game data. They also worked on integrating a new scraper and improving video rendering capabilities. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user interface and backend features related to game data.
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