Estevão Arantes

Estevão Arantes has a strong background in game development and software engineering. Estevão'smost recent role is as the Head of Technology at Akupara Games since July 2023. Prior to this, they held positions at various companies including Wildlife Studios and Flaming Fowl Studios as a Senior Programmer, where they worked on an unannounced project with a well-known intellectual property. Estevão also worked as a Co-Founder, CTO, and Programmer at Catalist.gg, where they developed a game keys sales service platform from scratch. Before that, Estevão was the Lead Programmer and CTO at Cat Nigiri, where they conducted research and development for DOTS/ECS and led the technical aspects of the studio. Estevão also has experience at Hoplon as a Software Development Coordinator and Lead Gameplay/Server/Tools Programmer, where they managed teams and planned studio interactions. Estevão's earlier work experience includes roles as a Software Engineer and IT Consultant at DOME-IT, where they designed and programmed online applications and provided consultancy on IT management tools and systems.

Estevão Arantes pursued their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from 2003 to 2009 at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho.