Santiago Zapata
Mobile Engineering Lead at Slashware Interactive
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Zapata is a Mobile Engineering Lead and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building games and mobile products from concept to launch. He blends product vision, UX collaboration and technical leadership—currently shaping creator-focused mobile experiences at Rare Days while running indie studio Slashware Interactive. His background spans large-scale consumer games at Zynga, cross-platform React/React Native and Unity work, and IoT-enabled mobile solutions, showing fluency across front-end, backend and cloud ops. Santiago mentors developers, drives open-source efforts (documenting small web game postmortems in the js13kGames community) and excels at turning experimental mechanics and procedural systems into accessible player experiences. Based in Medellín, he brings entrepreneurial grit, financial management training, and a longstanding commitment to preserving and evolving classic game genres.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Financial Management, Specialist Financial Management at Universidad de Medellín
Japanese, Spanish, English, English
Github Skills (10)
resource-files10
resource-dictionary10
resource-management10
lists10
videogames9
gameplay9
javascript4
artnet3
artwork3
engine3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
js13kGames/resources
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Tools, assets and tutorials for creating small web games.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to the repository by adding links to postmortems and writeups for various games. These entries detail the user's involvement in documenting specific games, primarily focusing on showcasing game-related materials. The user's contributions directly enhance the project's informational content, providing a valuable resource for learning about the development processes.
artgamegamesjavascript-gamesjavascript
slashman/gantaria
Sep 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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