Riccardo Balbo
Software Manager- Lead Software Development Coordinator And Problem Solving
Italy
Summary
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RockstarRiccardo Balbo is a software manager and lead development coordinator with 11 years of experience, currently guiding engineering and problem-solving efforts at B&B Automation - ADNET Group in Italy. He combines hands-on backend development skills with team leadership, shipping pragmatic solutions and coordinating complex projects. An active open-source contributor, Riccardo has improved core functionality in the notable jMonkeyEngine project—fixing asset loading, material sharing, and physics collision algorithms—demonstrating deep familiarity with game-engine internals and performance tuning. Known for tackling thorny bugs and integrating new features, he brings a practical, systems-oriented mindset to both legacy maintenance and feature-driven development. Outside the obvious managerial role, he retains strong technical involvement, often rolling up his sleeves on critical code paths and low-level debugging.
11 years of coding experience
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
javas10
3d-graphics10
game-development10
jmonkeyengine10
game-engine10
java10
game-dev10
physics9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine
Jun 2015 - May 2022
A complete 3-D game development suite written in Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 183 reviews, 105 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily contributed to the jMonkeyEngine's core functionalities and associated plugins. They addressed asset loading issues by removing root slashes from asset paths. The user worked on fixing material sharing within the Ogre scene loader and optimized physics character controls and other related systems by adding new collision algorithms. Furthermore, they were involved in addressing bugs and updating the library with new features.
3dgame-developmentjavajmonkeyengine3jmonkeyengine
riccardobl/jme3-bullet-vhacd
May 2016 - Apr 2021
This is a library that uses java bindings for Khaled Mamou's V-HACD to decompose concave meshes into hull-shapes in jmonkey engine.
Contributions:11 releases, 21 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
java-bindingsbulletjavajmonkeyengine3vhacd
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