Who am I
Hey, I’m Jose, an experienced video game programmer with 17 years of experience. My first published game was for Wii, the last one for Xbox Series. I have been working as tech director or lead programmer most of that time, involved in planning, code quality, hiring, mentoring and organising work. I have shipped more than 10 games, 7 as lead programmer. Most of my career has been working for console premium games, and for the last 5+ years I have been working on codevelopment and outsourcing.
Highlight games of my career are Age of Empires IV for Xbox, as lead programmer for the Xbox port, DreamWorks Dragons Dawn of New Riders, an action adventure RPG for PC and all major consoles, as lead programmer for the whole game, or Trivial Pursuit and Friends, a mobile F2P game that had more than 2M downloads as tech director of the studio and lead programmer. I’m happy working for any platform and currently I am involved as the only programmer for indie title Crescent County.
Services
What can I do for you
If you are a publisher or an investor, I can advise your investment, helping you evaluate a project from a technical perspective. As an external auditor I can evaluate the code quality, maturity of the project and possible pitfalls.
If you are a developer, I can help the team directly either by mentoring or getting hands-on with the code and helping with getting features done and deadlines met.
Auditing
– Given access to the codebase of a project, I will investigate and give and external report of quality of code, maturity and pitfalls.
Consulting
– Given access to the codebase of a project, and a development plan, I can give an extensive report of the current state of the project, evaluate risks and solutions, propose technology decisions and show some examples to guide the project towards success.
Mentoring
– I can offer technical advice to development teams. I am familiar with many genres and I can explain how to approach features, solve technical problems or plan for performance.
Programming outsourcing
– I am used to working with all kinds of codebases and engines, I can join the team to solve problems hands-on for you.
More about me
Bio
I left my PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2008 to pursue my lifelong passion of making games, in hindsight that was probably not my best financial decision, but I am happy with what I have achieved. The first game I worked on was published in 2010 for Wii, and since then I have worked in console games, serious games, mobile games, ports, full games, codevelopment, for the last three generations of consoles, PC and mobile.
I started working as lead programmer in 2014, and for a couple of years as tech director of a mobile studio, where we shipped a game, Trivial Pursuit and Friends, and got a couple more projects cancelled. Since then I have been working between hands-on work and supervising projects. I shipped several AA games before moving to co-development projects with big titles such as Wasteland 3, Age of Empires IV or Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. I have been lucky to work on projects for commercial engines, with several Unity projects shipped, Unreal, and in-house engines for several companies. I am used to diving into big codebases, solving problems and adding features, and also guide others to do so.
For the last year I have been working on indie projects, one of which I am still working on part time.
