Victor Popovici
Principal Software Engineer at AI Guys
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Popovici is a Principal Software Engineer based in Barcelona with over a decade of hands‑on experience designing and shipping high‑availability, soft real‑time C++ backend systems. He has led architecture and implementation for large-scale multiplayer infrastructure—standing up an AAA MMO backend from scratch, defining replication and persistence models, and engineering lock‑free concurrency primitives for ECS systems. A founder and long‑time lead of the SWGEmu open‑source project, he has shepherded a million‑line codebase and a loyal player community for well over a decade, demonstrating rare expertise in reverse engineering, long‑term maintenance, and community leadership. Victor combines deep low‑level optimization and profiling skills with proven cross‑functional coordination, enabling smoother gameplay under heavy load while keeping teams aligned across engine, gameplay, and infra.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Catalan
Github Skills (41)
sonic10
multiplatform10
formatting10
grand-theft-auto10
single-file10
gameserver10
printf10
stl10
azerothcore10
baduk10
unicode10
player10
floating-point10
cpp10
dedicated-server10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
swgemu/engine3
Aug 2013 - Jan 2022
engine3 for SWGEmu core3 https://www.swgemu.com/
Contributions:793 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
core3swgemu-core3swgemu
TheAnswer/PublicEngine
Aug 2013 - Dec 2019
Contributions:280 commits, 231 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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