Juan Rodríguez Morais

Users buy and customize Party Bear NFTs by equipping accessories acquired from other NFTs and SFTs.

I was the lead developer (team of 4 devs), responsible for the initial release with task management + delegation, doing frontend, backend, and 3D development, and supporting the infrastructure team with task automation. This project also featured a website with a 3D environment where owners can view and customize their bears.

The project had a successful launch w/ good adoption!

Sharesies is an investment platform available in NZ and AU with over 600K users. As my first startup, I learned a lot, and worked on many key projects:

• Currency conversion: Exchange money between 2-3 currencies at favorable rates with an easy UX
• Auto-Invest: Automated investing by custom intervals and amounts (example: $100 per week / $1000 per month)
• Australian Exchange integration: Users could now buy stock in Australian-based companies. Learned a lot about the strict requirements with fintech services.

Users buy boxer NFTs that can be customized (inside The Locker Room), trained (ML) and used to fight with other boxers in an AI-powered videogame.

I joined after the initial release and was responsible for The Locker Room, a website that gave owners the ability to view and customize their boxers inside a 3D environment.

ZED RUN is the first horse racing game of skill to live not only on the blockchain but in an open market. My contributions here involved optimizing build load speeds, developing tools for 3D asset support, and backend development.

When I visited friends back in my hometown, they introduced me to Magic: The Gathering, a trading card game with lots of deep lore, playing formats, and fun. I really liked the game, and went to lots of local tournaments. However, I saw one problem: hosting tournaments was very difficult: we were playing a format called "Commander", which involves 4 players paired against each other.

My solution? To build a tournament organizing tool which let hosts add participants, create round pairings (with complex algorithms), and easily determine round + tournament winners. This was also an opportunity for me to learn Elixir, a programming language I worked with at a previous role. Funnily enough, I didn't like Elixir at first, but now it's my favorite programming language!

Tie Breaker is now being used by multiple stores across Panama; I'm very grateful for their support.

I was learning how businesses operate, and as part of that learning process I launched Roast My Site, a micro-SaaS startup that helped business owners receive feedback for their landing pages.

As the only developer on the team, I worked on all software features as well as marketing for the product.

I wanted to learn how to create an extension for Visual Studio Code, the editor I write software with. It solves a problem I have when it comes to themes: I like using light themes during the day, and dark themes during the night. But changing them can become a repetitive and mundane task, which is why I automated that process with this tool.

This game was the result of an internal Game Jam at PikPok, where I teamed up with other talented developers to come up with a silly and fun idea. I was part of the team that developed the initial prototype, and the company picked it up for release afterwards.

Fresh out of university, this was the first commercial project I worked on. I joined the team as a Junior Game Programmer, and took ownerhsip of building many of the game’s UIs. It’s also the first time I had a look at backend development with Python, and I absolutely loved the entire process!

This game was the result of a 48 hour game jam (Ludum Dare 38), where I had to design and develop a game in the span of a weekend.