Hey, I'm Paulo.
I spent 11 years at Epic Games, building developer relations across Latin America, driving engine licensing in business development, and managing technical strategy for top AAA studios as Technical Account Manager.
Earlier, I co-founded Preloud Studios and served as studio head at Playlore Gameworks, shipping commercial titles across PC, consoles, and mobile.
I'm in São Paulo now, building tools and game systems, and looking for what's next.
A bit more about me ↓An extension to Unreal Engine's navigation framework providing true 3D volumetric pathfinding for flying entities that navigate open space rather than walkable surfaces. Architected and built using agentic LLM workflows as core engineering partners.
In active development; technical writeup in progress.
A non-destructive, stack-based procedural mesh authoring system for Unreal Engine 5. Each actor pairs a parametric generator (Box, Cylinder, Ramp, SplineWall) with an ordered list of modifiers, bringing Blender-style procedural modeling directly into the UE5 viewport with interactive drag handles.
Built with Geometry Script to author level geometry without round-tripping to external DCC tools, architected end-to-end via agentic C++ development workflows.
Replaced a Blueprint prototype with a typed C++ pipeline in a few days.
The official Vehicle Template shipped with Unreal Engine 5.0, built from scratch.
Two fully drivable vehicle types (sports car and off-road), each with double wishbone suspension feedback via Control Rig, Chaos Vehicle physics tuned for distinct handling profiles, Enhanced Input integration, and a UMG HUD.
Epic artists supplied the vehicle meshes; all physics configuration, Control Rig suspension, input mapping, and UMG UI were my work.
Ships with every Unreal Engine 5 installation as the default vehicle starting point.
An official Epic Games reference project built to demonstrate production-ready architecture on UE4 for high-end mobile (iOS/Android), PC, and consoles.
Led development across the core combat loop: integrated the Gameplay Ability System (GAS) with custom attribute sets and gameplay effects, converted Blueprint prototypes to high-performance C++, built enemy Behavior Trees, and implemented the dynamic UMG inventory and C++ save system.
One of the most downloaded Unreal Engine samples ever released.
An iOS puzzle game built in raw C++ and Objective-C without a third-party engine. Players swipe a light block through 300+ pathfinding levels across Classic and Time-Attack modes. Co-designed the mechanics and implemented the custom rendering, UI, and achievement systems.
Shipped on the App Store in 2014.
A free-to-play mobile strategy MMO for iOS: modern military theater, 20+ unit types, faction system, real-time alliance coordination, and cross-player raids. Led the studio of ~50 through full production in under a year, concept through launch and post-launch live service.
Featured on the App Store in over 100 countries and during the iPad 3 launch as the first online game with full Retina display support.
1.7M Total views across all content
Live coding session building a stealth-game enemy AI from scratch: Behavior Trees, Blackboard, AI Perception, and EQS. Became the industry reference talk for teaching AI for games in Unreal Engine.
Full pipeline for realistic outdoor scenes in UE4: Landmass Blueprint brushes for non-destructive terrain sculpting, Runtime Virtual Textures for water-edge wetness across all scene materials, and procedural foliage placement at landscape scale.
Technical deep-dive into Lumen's architecture: how real-time multi-bounce global illumination works under the hood and how Lumen unifies lighting with reflections. Produced with the Lumen engineering team during UE5 Early Access.
IGN's UE5 launch series, Episode 2. Appeared alongside Lumen's author as Epic's developer relations spokesperson, explaining real-time global illumination for a general audience.
State of Unreal 2022. Full pipeline for wheeled vehicles in UE5: Blender mesh prep, Physics Asset setup, Control Rig suspension, and handling tuning.
Unreal Indie Dev Days 2019. CPU and GPU performance deep-dive covering the game / draw / GPU thread pipeline, focused on transferable mental models, not command lists.
I love to build things. That's what drives me, and it's where I'm happiest. It started with modding Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal maps for LAN parties, which led to co-founding my first studio in the late 90s.
I co-founded Preloud when there were almost no studios in Brazil, figuring it out as we went and shipping titles for PC and consoles. I led creatively at first, then stepped into publisher relationships and business development as the studio grew.
At Playlore, I helped transform a co-dev art team into a full game studio, shipping the first real-time 3D sports game on social networks and an acclaimed mobile game featured on the App Store in over 100 countries.
Epic approached me after that. Unreal Engine 4 had just gone free and they wanted someone to establish their presence in LATAM. I was their first Brazilian hire, and that tenure ended with a studio acquisition and the opening of Epic's first office on the continent.
The work I cared about most across those years was being genuinely useful to studios: getting Unreal running right for a team in Brazil, closing a deal that funded someone's next project, or knowing a AAA studio's codebase well enough to actually help.
These days I'm spending more time building again. LLM-assisted workflows have changed what one person can get done, pulling me back toward what I loved most in the first place.
I was made in Recife, Brazil. I'm currently based in São Paulo, and open to what's next.