Gil Costa
Lead Developer at Miniclip
Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGil Costa is a Lead Developer based in Oeiras, Lisbon with 11 years of professional experience and a game-development pedigree stretching back to 1999. At Miniclip he progressed from Mobile Software Developer to Lead Developer, driving production-grade game and platform work since 2012 and leading teams since 2021. He blends deep reverse-engineering skills with pragmatic software engineering, making him adept at troubleshooting legacy systems and optimizing runtime behavior. Academically grounded with a BSc and postgraduate studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he also contributed to research on recovering digital information from paper UML diagrams early in his career. Known for combining hands-on coding with architectural leadership, he brings a long view of game development pipelines and a knack for surfacing hidden technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Computer science, Postgraduate Computer science at Universidade Nova de LisboaEscola Secundária de Pinhal Novo
Github Skills (13)
unity3d5
scriptableobject5
database4
iphone-app3
playfab2
composite2
lua2
shaderlab1
hlsl1
shader1
shadergraph1
post-processing1
urp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gsaurus/back_to_the_streets
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:186 commits, 4 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 6 months
gsaurus/gsaurus.github.io
Mar 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:49 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years
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