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    "name": "Luca Valentini",
    "label": "Senior Unity Developer and Software Developer, systems & tools",
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    "email": "lucavalentini25@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://lucavalentini.dev",
    "summary": "Senior Unity Developer with 6+ years in Unity and C#, in studio teams since 2023. I build the parts of a game other people build on: systems that hold up as content grows, and editor tools that turn hours of manual work into one click, with performance measured on the phones players own.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Buenos Aires",
      "countryCode": "AR",
      "region": "Buenos Aires"
    },
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      },
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        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "LucaValentini25",
        "url": "https://github.com/LucaValentini25"
      },
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        "network": "Instagram",
        "username": "clastergamedev",
        "url": "https://www.instagram.com/clastergamedev/"
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    {
      "name": "KYKUYO",
      "position": "Senior Unity Developer",
      "startDate": "2025-01",
      "endDate": "2026-09",
      "summary": "Worked on SOLAR, a live free-to-play geolocation/AR mobile game on Google Play and the App Store.",
      "highlights": [
        "Owned the character dressing system end-to-end: a node-graph garment system with an in-game coin shop backed by the API, and 8 authoring tools.",
        "Built the NPC GPU rendering pipeline with a custom Vertex Texture Animation (VAT) baker: 10 to 200 fps measured on device with a full NPC crowd.",
        "Designed the camera context system, with the layer boundary enforced by the compiler.",
        "Took the technical direction of SPCA x SOLAR across a 9-person team.",
        "Shipped the onboarding flow, the in-app purchase store and the HUD.",
        "Built internal editor tooling used across the team: 9 of the project's 35 custom editor tools."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Escuela Da Vinci",
      "position": "Professor / Teaching Assistant",
      "startDate": "2025-03",
      "summary": "Professor of Artificial Intelligence and pathfinding algorithms (2026 to present). Teaching Assistant in Programming for Thesis (2025).",
      "highlights": [
        "Teaches Artificial Intelligence and pathfinding algorithms.",
        "Helped students plan and architect the systems behind their thesis projects."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "3AM Games Studio",
      "position": "Lead Unity Developer",
      "startDate": "2023-01",
      "summary": "Indie project alongside full-time work. Technical direction of Waxy: The Wick and the Witch, over 26 months in a 5-person team.",
      "highlights": [
        "Wrote 10 of the project's 14 custom editor tools.",
        "Led a full rework of the core mechanic, which got the project selected for the ADVA MPVP mentorship program.",
        "Designed the wax and fire-state mechanics and the camera system."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Huawei Technologies",
      "position": "Technical Support Analyst & Helpdesk",
      "startDate": "2023-09",
      "endDate": "2024-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Handled 300 to 400 support tickets a month against an under-18-hour response-time SLA.",
        "Kept a user satisfaction rating of 4.5/5 or higher."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Escuela Da Vinci",
      "area": "Video Game Development",
      "studyType": "Technician degree",
      "startDate": "2022-01",
      "endDate": "2024-12"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "Tooling & automation",
      "keywords": [
        "Custom Editor Windows",
        "UPM packages",
        "Build automation",
        "Code generation",
        "Slack API",
        "Discord bots"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Engine",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity",
        "URP",
        "Addressables",
        "UI Toolkit",
        "uGUI",
        "Cinemachine",
        "Jobs System",
        "Burst"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Systems & architecture",
      "keywords": [
        "Game systems",
        "Data-driven design",
        "ScriptableObjects",
        "Assembly Definitions",
        "Event systems",
        "MVC"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Performance",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity Profiler",
        "Frame Debugger",
        "Memory Profiler",
        "GPU skinning",
        "GPU instancing",
        "HLSL",
        "Android / iOS / PC builds"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Multiplayer",
      "keywords": [
        "Netcode for GameObjects",
        "Unity Transport",
        "Relay / Lobby",
        "Client-side prediction",
        "Server reconciliation",
        "Snapshot interpolation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI-assisted development",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude Code",
        "Codex",
        "Unity MCP",
        "Agent skills",
        "Local LLMs (Ollama)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Languages",
      "keywords": [
        "C#",
        "C++",
        "TypeScript",
        "Python",
        "SQL"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Spanish",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent (FCE)"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "SOLAR",
      "description": "Live free-to-play geolocation/AR mobile game.",
      "startDate": "2025-01",
      "endDate": "2026-09",
      "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kykuyo.solar",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity",
        "C#",
        "URP",
        "Addressables",
        "UI Toolkit",
        "Jobs System",
        "Burst"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Senior Unity Developer at KYKUYO"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Owned the dressing system, the camera-context architecture and the NPC GPU rendering pipeline (10 to 200 fps on device). Shipped the IAP store, a typed API client from the OpenAPI spec and GPU instancing for vegetation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Snackdown",
      "description": "2D last-player-standing multiplayer platformer, server-authoritative, with hand-written client-side prediction, server reconciliation and snapshot interpolation. Built with Claude Code.",
      "url": "https://github.com/LucaValentini25/Snackdown",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity 6",
        "C#",
        "Netcode for GameObjects",
        "Unity Transport",
        "Relay",
        "Lobby"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Solo developer"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Client-side prediction and server reconciliation written by hand on Netcode for GameObjects, which doesn't include them. 30 Hz tick, snapshot interpolation, up to 4 players over Unity Relay."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rollgeon",
      "description": "Roguelike dice builder where your deck is a bag of dice and combat is based on Generala. In development.",
      "url": "https://3amgamesstudio.itch.io/rollgeon",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity",
        "Mobile port",
        "Touch controls",
        "Safe area",
        "Controller support"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Mobile port and gamepad support, in collaboration with members of 3AM Games"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Ported the game to mobile (touch controls, safe-area layouts, inputs reworked into gestures or on-screen buttons) and added controller support; still contributing while it's in development."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Waxy: The Wick and the Witch",
      "description": "3D puzzle-platformer by 3AM Games Studio, selected for the ADVA MPVP mentorship program after a rework of its core mechanic.",
      "startDate": "2024-04",
      "url": "https://3amgamesstudio.itch.io/waxy-the-wick-and-the-witch",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity",
        "C#",
        "Editor tools",
        "Cinemachine",
        "uGUI"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Lead Unity Developer, 5-person team"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Technical direction over 26 months in a 5-person team: core mechanics, camera, architecture, and 10 of the project's 14 custom editor tools."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SPCA x SOLAR",
      "description": "Time-limited cat-rescue campaign game with SPCA, an animal rescue in Singapore. The campaign has ended.",
      "startDate": "2025-06",
      "endDate": "2025-11",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity",
        "C#",
        "Mobile",
        "Addressables"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Technical direction, 9-person team"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered within a fixed campaign window, with a mock layer so the game never waited on the backend."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Unity Tools",
      "description": "Five Unity editor tools published as UPM packages: Asset Renamer, PlayerPrefs Manager, Prefab Replacer, Project Zipper and Rename Items.",
      "url": "https://github.com/LucaValentini25/Unity-Tools",
      "keywords": [
        "C#",
        "UPM",
        "Editor Windows"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Solo developer"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Asset Renamer: bulk renaming from a rule set the whole team shares."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "You Can't Always Push the Red Button",
      "description": "Decision-making game for the Unity BA Game Jam 2026: you rule a cat nation and try not to just push the button. Made with Claude Code in 3 days.",
      "startDate": "2026",
      "url": "https://zathmell.itch.io/you-cant-always-push-the-red-button",
      "keywords": [
        "Unity",
        "C#",
        "WebGL",
        "Claude Code"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "3-day jam game; programming shared with Ignacio Martinez in a 3-person team"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Playable WebGL build on itch.io; decision system co-designed and balanced with Ignacio."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Indie Community Bot",
      "description": "Reusable Discord bot for indie game communities: welcome cards, devlogs, build notifications from CI and bug reports as private threads. All settings live per server in the database.",
      "url": "https://github.com/LucaValentini25/indie-community-bot",
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript",
        "discord.js",
        "SQLite"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Solo developer"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Running on Rollgeon's community server."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Brain App",
      "description": "Local-first AI assistant where the LLM never decides an action: it classifies intent, and deterministic code does the work. Private repository.",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "FastAPI",
        "SQLite",
        "Vue 3",
        "Ollama"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Solo developer, personal project"
      ],
      "highlights": [
        "Runs with no cloud, switches between 4 model backends live, keeps RAG memory in SQLite and keeps working if the model is down."
      ]
    }
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