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Career Break

Sabbatical & Independent Projects

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.

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Key Highlights

  • 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
  • Built and operated a personal HomeLab — networking, self-hosted services, and infrastructure tinkering
  • Built a small side business creating and customizing 3D printed products, from modeling to final delivery
  • Returning to the industry actively

After wrapping up Valiants: Arena at Vortrius, I took an intentional career break to focus on family and personal matters split between Chile and Brazil. During this period I stayed hands-on with technology in three directions:

  • Croakpad — an early-stage indie studio I’m starting with a friend, where we’re building Corazon, a suite of 10+ Unity packages and tools aimed at speeding up game development. (Both still private for now.)
  • The Ultimate Lazy Dev — my own ongoing personal toolset of small Unity utilities focused on cutting boilerplate for solo and small-team projects. (github.com/theultimatelazydev)
  • HomeLab — networking, self-hosted services, and infrastructure tinkering as a way to keep my non-Unity engineering muscles warm.
  • D Printing — started as a hobby and evolved into a small side business through custom requests and product experimentation, focusing on designing and producing customized 3D printed products.

I’m now actively looking for my next role.

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