Ruben Caliandro
Technical Art Director at Tiny Bull Studios
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolRuben Caliandro is a Technical Art Director and software engineer in Turin with 12 years of experience blending real-time graphics, tooling and production workflows for games and interactive experiences. He leads R&D and small artist teams at Tiny Bull Studios, shipping optimized shaders, VFX and pipelines across platforms from Nintendo Switch to VR headsets while mentoring technical artists. His background as a full‑stack web developer and MSc in Virtual Reality gives him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency—he not only codes shaders and editor tools (C#, ShaderLab, HLSL/GLSL) but also designs scalable art workflows and CI-friendly pipelines. Practical and curious, Ruben focuses on CPU/GPU optimizations and feasible implementations for constrained teams, turning cutting‑edge rendering techniques into production-ready assets.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Scientific high school degree, Scientific high school degree at Liceo ScientificoMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Virtual Reality and Multimedia at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (120)
atom-editor10
exporter10
maps10
textmate10
alembic10
leaflet10
atom-plugin10
token-based-authentication9
code-snippets9
javascript9
api9
babashka9
authentication9
virtual-keyboard9
omniauth9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Chosko/chosko.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:73 pushes in 7 years
tandusrl/acts_as_bookable
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
A reservation plugin for Rails applications that allows resources to be bookable.
Contributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 1 month
railsrails-applicationsrubyreservation
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