Valerio Di Donato
Chief Executive Officer at 34BigThings srl
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolValerio Di Donato is a serial founder and CEO with 14 years scaling game studios and ecosystems from idea to acquisition, most notably growing 34BigThings into Italy’s second-largest studio and positioning it for acquisition by Embracer. He combines hands-on technical leadership—spanning engine and backend work—with proven commercial instincts, having grown revenue to 1M+ EUR MRR and expanded teams from 3 to 100+ developers. Beyond games, he co-founded Event Horizon School and built it into Italy’s largest game academy (8 locations, 800+ students/year) and later launched Quickload, the country’s leading gaming accelerator in partnership with Microsoft. Valerio’s background blends software architecture, product publishing (Redout franchise), and talent development, making him adept at turning technical roadmaps into sustainable businesses. Less obvious: he repeatedly orchestrates end-to-end pipelines—from educational pipelines that produce 25 student games/year to studio publishing strategies—linking talent development directly to studio output.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanMSc in Media Technology and Games Computer Science, MSc in Media Technology and Games Computer Science at IT-Universitetet i København
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
129reputation
16kreached
4answers
7questions
Github Skills (26)
versioning7
libgit27
git-addons7
git-lfs7
large-files7
version-control7
ibooks6
octree6
raycasting6
openssl6
android6
opencl6
sublime6
single-sign-on6
facebook6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
drowne/Corona-Sublime
Nov 2011 - Jan 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 2 months
bundlesublimesublime-text
drowne/SudokuSolver
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 2 days
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