Summary
Stratos Makrygiannakis is a Senior Game Developer with 12 years of experience, currently helping make the world more playful as part of the Candy Crush Saga team at King in Stockholm. He progressed through junior and mid roles at King after six years as an independent Unity3D developer where he shipped two mobile titles and owned core gameplay and UI programming. His background includes cross-platform Qt development for desktop and mobile, backend components, QML interfaces, and even tooling and 3D modeling, reflecting a full-stack approach to game engineering. Stratos combines strong technical foundations from a Computer Science degree at Aristotle University with hands-on shipping experience on live, high-traffic games. He’s comfortable both building game systems and the developer tools that support them, and brings a pragmatic QA-and-bugfix mindset from years of production work. Fluent across languages and platforms, he blends gameplay craftsmanship with practical engineering solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.52/10, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.52/10 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Greek