Sandro Ponticelli
Lead Game Developer at WhatWapp Entertainment S.r.l.
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolSandro Ponticelli is a veteran software and game engineering leader with over 25 years of professional experience designing and shipping entertainment and enterprise systems from server APIs to mobile clients. As Lead Game Developer at WhatWapp and former Technical Director/CEO of multiple studios, he blends hands-on implementation (C/C++, Objective‑C, C#, PHP, Node.js) with architecture, QA and dev‑ops to deliver high‑quality, performant games and SaaS platforms. His portfolio spans pioneering Italian web and mobile products—from the first major online Fantacalcio and the TIMCafè community to award‑winning mobile titles like Battleloot Adventure and top‑chart Belote—plus scalable LMS and gamification services for global brands. He routinely leads hiring, onboarding, mentorship and cross‑functional communication while building tooling to detect cheating, diagnose analytics errors and recover failing projects. Known for meticulous attention to detail, Sandro thrives in fast‑changing environments and is comfortable steering both code-level decisions and long‑term technical strategy.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)
sponticelli/LiteNinja-Utils
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
sponticelli/LiteNinja-DI
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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