Samuel Rantaeskola
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Linköping, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Rantaeskola is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft’s Simplygon Studios with over two decades of experience in the games industry, blending deep technical roots as a programmer with strategic leadership across product, production, and partner-facing roles. He has led large teams and shipped five AAA titles, then pivoted to developer advocacy and product expertise—traveling globally to help studios adopt middleware and 3D optimization workflows. Samuel combines hands-on knowledge of gameplay programming, build systems, and asset optimization with certifications in SAFe and a talent for translating customer needs to engineering roadmaps. He’s increasingly focused on the challenges of web-based 3D performance and tooling, anticipating how optimization will shape content delivery at scale. An avid student of team dynamics and game-theory-adjacent thinking (he links leadership, team behavior and poker), he brings a pragmatic, numbers-driven curiosity to complex problems. Located in Linköping, Sweden, he pairs technical depth with polished public speaking and a long track record of global developer engagement.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Uppsala universitet
Finnish, English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (4)
simplygon4
maya4
python3
scripting2
Github contributions (3)
bennymuller/MayaPythonUI
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 1 month
scriptingpythonmaya-pluginmayasimplygon
Simplygon/SimplygonPBRExample
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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