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Joao Lopes

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Engineering Manager at Scopely building an LLM platform that generated over 500 in-game offers in minutes.

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At Scopely, I lead the design and development of a generative AI platform that turns natural-language intent into in-game content. I built its proof of concept and MVP, which enabled generation of over 500 offers in a few minutes for less than US$0.20 per batch.

I manage five engineers and coordinate delivery with a six-person contractor team. I also standardized LLM-assisted development and helped reduce offer creation from several hours of manual work to an automated process taking approximately 10–20 minutes.

Before Scopely, I led full-stack development at Wildlife Studios, including services, tools and mobile SDKs for live game content. I also served as technical founder of Startup Venture, building a crypto-payments product before its pivot to a gaming wallet with NFT lending.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Software Engineering Manager

Current

Scopely

Apr 2024 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Manage five engineers and coordinate delivery with an additional six-person contractor team. Lead the design and development of a generative AI platform using LLM agents and MCP integrations, reducing offer creation time from hours to 10-20 minutes.

People Management LLM Agents Model Context Protocol Generative AI Multi Cloud Architecture CI CD DevOps Infrastructure Kubernetes AWS GCP Docker Terraform Jenkins GitHub Gitlab JavaScript Python Go Java SQL BASH

Senior Software Engineer

Scopely

Oct 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Led engineers in building full-stack tools for personalized in-game offers, combining technical direction with hands-on delivery across frontend, backend, data integration, infrastructure, monitoring, and CI/CD.

Fullstack Development Frontend Backend Data Integration Infrastructure Monitoring CI CD React Android iOS Unity AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins GitHub Gitlab JavaScript Python Go Java SQL BASH

Technical Founder

Startup Venture

Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 (6 months)

Served as the technical founder in a three-person founding team, owning implementation, deployment, and engineering decisions across web2 and web3 architectures. Built a crypto-payments product before pivoting to a gaming wallet with NFT lending.

Web2 Web3 Crypto Payments NFT Security Technical Leadership

Lead Software Engineer

Wildlife Studios

Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 (9 months)

Led end-to-end service development for a Monetization Tech squad, building infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, backend services, frontend tools, and mobile SDKs, primarily for Unity, to deliver live and dynamic content to games.

Unity Mobile SDK DevOps Backend Services Frontend Infrastructure CI CD Android iOS Terraform Jenkins AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes JavaScript Python Go Java SQL BASH

Software Engineer

Wildlife Studios

Mar 2018 - Mar 2021 (3 years)

Owned and extended SDKs and internal platforms supporting production games, including advertising mediation, analytics, purchases, notifications, networking, and live game content synchronization.