CTO, Senior Game & AI Engineer

Arseniy Shestakov is a freelance software engineer with over 15 years of experience. His expertise spans full-stack web development, web automation/data scraping, custom OpenWRT firmwares, and maintaining C++ open-source projects using tools like Cmake, Valgrind, and Intel XE Studio. For the past four years, he served as CTO of an indie game company he co-founded, successfully shipping three commercial game releases on PC and consoles (PS, Xbox, Switch) and developing numerous prototypes. He has demonstrated rapid development capabilities by building two complex, multiplayer, client-server game demos (card game and RTS, 50,000+ LOC each) using LLMs within six months. His experience also includes company leadership, hiring, managing small teams of developers, game designers, and artists, as well as P&L management, pitch slide creation, and business development. He is an extraverted individual seeking full-time or project-based opportunities in or outside of gamedev, committing 200% of his time to his work.