Hi there! I’m Lucas Girotto!

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Email

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A small soundtrack for whatever I'm building at the time:

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About Me

Hi, I’m Lucas Girotto.

I build games and software that hold together under pressure: clear systems, tight mechanics, and code that doesn't fall over under real use. I've shipped complete, playable games solo and in small teams, including a 3D puzzle game that earned a 19/20 as my postgraduate capstone, and a jam entry that placed 9th in Judge's Choice at Pirate Software's Game Jam 18. I'm currently finishing my Master's in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico, researching LLM-based interactive storytelling for financial literacy.

On the software side, I co-founded and served as CTO of SafetyScope (2023–2026), where I designed and built the backend and computer-vision pipeline behind an automated video-surveillance platform, covering real-time object detection, heatmap analysis, live counting, and instant alerting, end to end.

I'm not an artist, so on the game side I design around constraints, publishing non-commercial indie games and prototypes built solo and in small teams, using Godot and other engines.

This portfolio is a snapshot of the things I’ve built so far: games, tools, and software projects that reflect how I think and work.

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Published Games

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Project Repositories

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Side Projects

Projects

Education

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Post-graduation in Game Design @IADE (Oct 2024 - July 2025)

• GPA: 19.0/20.0 (top of the class)
• Capstone: BlockShift, a 3D puzzle game (10+ levels) built around a shape-deactivation mechanic, scored 19/20
• Capstone Project GDD

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Master’s in Computer Science @Instituto Superior Técnico (Sep 2024 - Present)

• Master Thesis on Human-LLM interaction: “Procedural Narrative Generation for Financial Literacy: An LLM-Based Approach to Personalised Interactive Storytelling”

• Majors in Artificial Intelligence and Game Development

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Computer Science Bachelor @NOVA School of Science and Technology (Sep 2021 - Jul 2024)

• Internship GPA: 18.0/20.0

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Certifications

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Japanese Language Proficiency — N5

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Artificial Intelligence @Samsung Innovation Campus

• GPA: 19.0/20.0

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CS50x @Harvard University

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Hobbies

• Sci-fi Book Lover
• Playing Games
• Working out

Work Experience

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Freelance Game Designer & Developer (May 2026 - Present)

• Working within a 6-person team on a client project: shipped 1 full level and rewrote the entire character system into a state-machine/component-based architecture.
• Writing level design documentation translating concepts into buildable specs.

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Co-Founder & CTO SafetyScope (Oct 2023 - Jul 2026)

• Co-founded and led engineering for SafetyScope, architecting the CV pipeline end to end: ingest → detection → alerting.
• Fine-tuned and shipped 8 production models (YOLO, PatchCore, STG-NF) at 90%+ accuracy, plus a generalized VLM-based detection system adaptable to any use case.
• Drove full GDPR compliance: mapped data flows end to end and built anonymization pipelines; led infrastructure work to get the company SOC2-ready.
• Deployed infrastructure across IaC, cloud, and on-premise environments.
• Stack: PyTorch, OpenCV.

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Backend Developer Intern Yomashi (Mar 2024 - Jul 2024)

• Built the backend of a FlutterFlow app (Firebase, JavaScript), including a full unit-testing architecture (Mocha, Jest) and a payment system with reconciliation, backoff, and retry handling.
• Bachelor’s internship grade: 18/20.

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Project Manager & Full-Stack Developer In-Nova Junior Consulting (Apr 2022 - Jul 2024)

• Project Manager (Nov 2023 - Jul 2024): Led a team of 5 through a 4-month build of Futurália's official web app, Portugal’s biggest student job fair, including a 3D fair map, event calendar, route planner, and grade calculator (React, Figma).
• Full-Stack Developer (Apr 2022 - Jul 2024): Built full-stack websites for 3 clients, including Orion Technik — an aerospace maintenance & repair company supplying NATO-approved services to the Portuguese, Swedish, and Chilean militaries — using React, Redux, TailwindCSS, and TypeScript.

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Full-Stack Developer & Board Secretary n.inf (Sep 2021 - Jul 2024)

• Full-Stack Developer (Sep 2021 - Jul 2024): Developed and maintained the nuclei’s website in pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• General Assembly Board Secretary (Sep 2023 - Jul 2024): Reviewed nuclei’s documents, organised General Assemblies and wrote their minutes.

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Game Developer GameDev Técnico (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022)

• Built and entered games in 5 game jams with the club, placing in the top 25% in every one, using Godot and Unity.

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