Rui Figueira
Co-Founder at CrazyGaze Ltd
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Figueira is an experienced games programmer and entrepreneur with 11+ years building game systems, audio engines, networking, and tooling across studios from Realtime Worlds to Epic Games and Cloudgine. Now a co-founder of CrazyGaze Ltd in the Greater Edinburgh area, he combines hands-on engine and audio development with product-focused indie projects and commercial freelance work. He has led technical efforts like an in-game music studio, cross-platform audio middleware, and integrations with Unreal Engine, and has experience optimizing middleware such as Apache Thrift. Rui’s background spans gameplay, server tooling, mobile ports and tooling (including a long-running personal devkit project), showing a rare mix of deep low-level engineering and indie creativity. Colleagues know him for pragmatic C++ design and for shipping robust systems under small-team constraints.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
ECT, Computers, ECT, Computers at Universidade de AveiroComputers, Computers at Escola Secundária de EstarrejaComputers, Computers at Escola Secundária José Macedo FragateiroComputers, Computers at Paid course
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (99)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ruifig/czspas
Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:145 commits, 91 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 3 months
ruifig/czmuc
Jun 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:54 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
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