José David Sánchez Hidalgo

• Orchestrated transition of DevOps infrastructure from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, integrating Kubernetes for enhanced testing and deployment efficiency.
• Oversaw strategic team expansion to optimize our DevOps processes and infrastructure.
• Supervised front-end team, comprising three members, ensuring smooth coordination with ongoing development projects.
• Aligned daily operations with short and medium-term goals, fostering seamless integration with various game teams.
• Facilitated open communication channels, gathering feedback, and identifying opportunities for tool enhancement.
• Implemented long-term planning initiatives to maintain team satisfaction and productivity.
• Cultivated a collaborative environment focused on innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• My tasks are SDK Manager stayed during this time. But since number of 3rd party SDK's were reduced plus job previously done it did not took much time. Still it was important point to help Netflix SDK team guiding them on best practices from user's point of view

• Finally back to Tech team in theory, in practice and also physically
• Continue developing and improving External SDKs packages (internal official name for 3rd Party SDKs plugins through Package Manager )
• DevOps tasks became second job.
• February 2021 became Lead Programmer of Tech Team, and only DevOps person.
• Maintenance and update of pipelines using Azure Dev Ops
• Maintenance of our self-hosted OSX agents.
• Automation of agents updates, creation of pipelines.
• Automation of publishing games to stores through fastlane

Team lead duties:

• Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships which were in bad shape.
• Unify back-end and front-end team towards common goal with clear instructions, tasks and safe working environment.

• In theory still part of Tech team.
• In practice worked by my own. I continue my duties with 3rd Party SDKs, but also helping DevOps, since integrations of new plugins ended up involving build scripts, pipelines and agents configurations.
• Become one of DevOps person; actively helping with DevOps tasks
• Developed Unity packages for our external 3rd Party SDKs.
• That not only helped to unify coding implementations for all games, but also reduced integration time giving me much more time for other duties.
• By that time I was working heavily with DevOps from Tech Team and reporting to Tech Team lead.

• Part of Platform team, also known as Tech team. GaaS is their games platform to handle servers, game content, player info, etc.
• Handling all 3rd party SDKs on games, remote push notifications and other plugin integrations.
• Sync tasks and priorities with game teams ones to deliver integrations or new features early enough to be tested and be able to do changes when required.

Reviewed code, debugged problems and corrected issues.

• Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
• Development of Rovio game engine in C++, services and other core game related items.
• Part of Rovio full-stack platform and game engine team.

• Leading new version of Toons TV SDK.
• Meeting future clients with our sales to gather requirements and possibilities to accomplish goals.
• Developed on Android and iOS creating native and Unity3d plugins to easy integration of our SDK for external companies as well as Rovio game teams.
• Reviewed code, debugged problems and corrected issues.
• Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
• Managed development milestones from initial steps through final delivery.
• Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for project plans.

• In charge of client side of Toons products for Rovio Games.
• Reviewed code, debugged problems and corrected issues or improved performance for iOS and Android devices mainly.
• Consulted with engineering team members to determine system loads and develop improvement plans.
• Assisting game teams to do integrations of Toons into their games.
• Raised communication between Toons team and game teams, what resulted in higher and better quality use of Toons inside games raising our ads revenue.
• Technologies used were from C++ to JavaScript (Nodejs)

• Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
• Post production of games for publish to other markets like Amazon, Nobles&Barnel or Samsung market.
• Customization of games for children devices, demonstrations stores, etc.
• Ported games to Windows Phones, BlackBerry, Nook, kindle among others.
• Lead programmer for Chinese customization of Angry Birds for TalkWeb which included high efficient configuration to achieve between 40 and 50 different builds per release for different Chinese markets

• Integration of different plugins like Facebook SDK to the game.
• Maintenance and creation of different virtual machines used by the backend. AWS

• Modified existing games based in Java to correct coding errors, upgrade interfaces and improve overall performance.
• They had their own game engine called "EMERGE"