Unreal Engine Developer · Lead Programmer, Montraluz · Montevideo, Uruguay
7+ years in Unreal/Blueprints and C++/3 awards on Dreamcore
Windows, web and mobile · Claude Code on Terminal · Montevideo, Uruguay
~4,000 tournaments run/5,000 organic users/5 products shipped solo
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IGF 2026
Nuovo Award
Honorable mention
Latinx Game Awards 2026
Excellence in Audio
Winner
Xbox Excellence Awards 2025
Store Rating
Winner
Five chapters of surreal bodycam horror. We build it at Montraluz, Tlon Industries publishes it, and Kotaku called it one of the creepiest games of the year.
Lead ProgrammerGameplay, UI and systems: the player interaction mechanics, and the dynamic world events that make a space you want to feel lost in.
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Battle against your opponent in a 1 vs 1 Duel to Death or in a Race to the Finish. Master the mechanics and become a Legend in the Shippy Tournament.
Duel/Race
Advance through the solar system collecting planet cores, you will need them all in order to destroy the Sun.
Travel through different levels collecting gems, just to discover a greater truth at the end.
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~4,000Tournaments run
5,000Organic users, no ad spend
5Bracket formats
Swiss, playoffs, double elimination, round robin and group league, with live Firebase sync, so a bracket updates on every screen watching it while the organiser is still entering results.
FounderSeparate organiser and viewer links, best of 3, 5 or 7, FIFA, FIBA and EHF point systems, PNG and PDF export, QR sharing and multiple languages.
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An always-on-top gauge for Windows showing how much of your Claude usage limits you have burned through, and when they reset. It sits above every other window through the uiAccess privilege, and steps out of the way on any monitor running a fullscreen game while staying put on the others. It discovers its metrics from the API rather than hardcoding them, and goes amber, then red, when the data is more than 12 minutes old.
Five styles/Four themes/Hairline mode/Per-monitor detection
One C++ file. A CPU rasteriser and a rigid body solver holding 60 FPS with sixteen bodies, transform gizmos, orbit and fly cameras. I built it to understand what an engine does backstage.
C++/No dependencies
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A fuel log in a single HTML file. Several vehicles, fills entered by volume or by cost, efficiency worked out from odometer distance, and spend and price trends over any period.English, Spanish and Portuguese/JSON and CSV export
Blu-ray subtitles are pictures, not text. This reads them and hands back an editable SRT. Python and Tesseract, with a review pane showing the actual bitmap the OCR saw, so the 1 to 2 percent of cues that need a human eye are quick to find.Not published yet
A desktop prompt manager built on Tauri v2.Unreleased
A second-hand clothing marketplace for Uruguay, in the shape of Vinted. Android and iOS first, web second. React 19, TypeScript strict, Capacitor 8, Firebase and Tailwind v4, in Rioplatense Spanish.Private
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Sep 2025/present
VERXUS
Founded VERXUS and built it alone: product, engineering and design. Close to 4,000 tournaments run for around 5,000 organic users.
Oct 2023/present
Montraluz
Gameplay, UI and systems: the player interaction mechanics, and the dynamic world events that make a space you want to feel lost in.
Apr 2019/present
Pacard Games
Shipped titles including MORTARMEN and PEAK.53. Gameplay, UI, MetaSounds, VR and optimization for studios and indie teams.
Feb 2025/Jun 2025
Vividly Built
Archviz in VR: interior and furniture customisation for houses and apartments. Meta Quest 3.
Aug 2024/Aug 2025
Abstract Frame
ClientBoehringer Ingelheim
An awareness piece on cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia. Meta Quest 3.
Mar 2022/Aug 2023
5th Cell Media
ClientNetflix
Branching scenarios where one player action cascades into later events, original in-game dialogue, Blueprint blocking and cinematic scripting, event data, and peer reviewed builds.
2022/2023
Senpai Academy, online
Taught Unreal online: coaching material, Blueprint workflows and game feel. You learn an engine twice: once to use it, once to teach it. Students teach you things no amount of experience will.
2021/2022
Worlds
Responsive gameplay mechanics and UI on remote Unreal projects, focused on game feel and performance.
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Pablo Cardoso.
Unreal gameplay and systems, or product engineering where somebody needs a thing built and shipped rather than scoped forever. Montevideo, Uruguay, on UTC-3: a full working day overlap with the United States and a morning overlap with Europe. English advanced, Spanish native.
Born 1986, Montevideo, Uruguay. Gamer since 1990.
Game development let me merge my passion with my profession, which means I get to build the kinds of games I actually want to play. Working at a high level in a field that lines up with my interests and my values is the part I find genuinely fulfilling, and bringing an idea to life through programming has not stopped being satisfying in seven years.
The constant creative potential, and the fact that every project hands you a problem you have not had before, is what keeps me learning. It is also why the products sit alongside the games: when I want to understand something properly, I build the whole thing myself.
