René Abreu

Sr. Game Developer

Santiago, Chile · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sr. Game Developer with 10+ years shipping cross-platform titles — from solo jam games to commercial releases with global studios.

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Work Experience

Commercial titles, contracted work, and indie projects I've contributed to.

Career Break

Sabbatical & Independent Projects

sabbatical

Sep 2025 — Present Santiago, Chile · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Intentional time off after Valiants: Arena to attend to personal and family matters, while staying technically active through Croakpad — an early-stage indie studio I'm starting with a friend — alongside HomeLab work, independent tooling projects and a small side business.

› Stepped away from full-time work to handle family and personal commitments split between Brazil and Chile

› Co-founded Croakpad with a friend and started developing Corazon, a suite of 10+ Unity packages/tools

› Continued building The Ultimate Lazy Dev — an ongoing personal toolset for solo and small-team Unity development

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Vortrius

Sr. Unity Developer / Tech Lead

full-time

Mar 2024 — Aug 2025 Remote

Joined Valiants: Arena post-alpha as Sr. Game Developer and later took over as Tech Lead — focused on tooling, packages, build pipelines, and live operations across PC, Mac, iOS and Android.

› Joined Valiants: Arena post-alpha as Sr. Game Developer; took over as Tech Lead after the previous Tech Lead stepped down

› Built reusable packages (first task post-alpha), the Google-Sheets-to-JSON GameData pipeline, and the request/queue system feeding Logs and Analytics services (PaperTrail, Loggly, New Relic, internal)

› Built game stats fully end-to-end (server-side Quantum plugin), plus IAP, gacha, Team Management, Training Center, skin system, and the in-editor debug menu

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Globant

Sr. Game Developer / Tech Lead

full-time

Feb 2021 — Mar 2024 Remote

Progressed from mid-level to senior developer across NFL Clash and AEW: Figure Fighters, leading distributed teams and managing full app store release cycles.

› Led development on NFL Clash as Tech Lead — LiveOps, features, and shared systems

› Transitioned to AEW: Figure Fighters as Tech Lead and later managed the distributed team

› Oversaw app store submissions, soft launches, and versioning via TestFlight and Google Play

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Giant Monkey Robot

Programmer

full-time

Feb 2020 — Feb 2021 Remote

Contributed to NFL Clash — a competitive mobile football game — developing gameplay features, LiveOps updates, and reusable SDK tooling.

› Developed and maintained gameplay features and LiveOps updates for NFL Clash

› Supported SDK development for reuse across Clash-style games

› Worked on a 30+ person distributed team

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MTI Studio

Unity Developer

contract

Nov 2019 — Feb 2020 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Developed features and improvements for enterprise Unity applications, including projects for Globo, with a focus on internal tooling and workflow optimizations.

› Developed features for enterprise Unity apps, including Globo projects

› Built internal tooling and Unity-based workflow optimizations

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Red Rail Games

Freelance Unity Developer

freelance

Apr 2019 — Apr 2019 Remote

Fixed critical bugs in a VR training simulator and built a data export tool for analyzing user performance in corporate simulations.

› Fixed critical bugs in a VR training simulator for corporate safety use

› Developed a data export and reporting tool for user performance analysis

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Gamer Trials

Full-Stack Developer

full-time

Nov 2018 — Jan 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Full-stack role combining server infrastructure work, React landing pages, a Unity playtesting feedback plugin, and QA support for indie game studios.

› Assisted server migration using Docker, AWS, Go, Python, and Angular

› Built landing pages in React

› Developed a Unity plugin enabling real-time playtest feedback collection

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Arcolabs

Unity Developer / Project Manager

full-time

Sep 2017 — Dec 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lead programmer and later project manager on Game do Corinthians (iOS/Android), and contributor to PlayStats, an in-house backend platform centralizing game data.

› Led programming on Game do Corinthians (iOS/Android) with a team of 3 developers

› Took over as Project Manager after the original PM left — handled planning, coordination, and delivery

› Collaborated on PlayStats, an in-house backend platform centralizing game data across company projects

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Blue Hill Games

Co-Founder / Lead Programmer

part-time

Apr 2017 — May 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Co-founded the studio and led development of Wired, a PC puzzle-platformer selected for Playbor's Pre-Acceleration program and showcased at Game XP / Rock in Rio 2017.

› Co-founded Blue Hill Games with Lucas Pereira

› Led all programming on Wired — solo developer responsible for the full codebase

› Wired selected for Playbor's Pre-Acceleration program and incubated at Silício Fluminense

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