Miguel Vieira (Toamig) · Game Engineer & Tech Lead

01 · Profile

The short version.

Game engineer turned tech lead, drawn to the work behind the work: building tools, designing systems, and growing the teams that make shipping possible.

Five years across studios building gameplay, multiplayer, tools, animation, and AI systems on PC, console, and VR. Now an Unreal Engine 5 engineer for AAA partner studios at Side, while directing the engineering team on Timefront at Flama Craftworks.

02 · Career

Where I've shipped.

Current

Side

Unreal Game Engineer

Mar 2026 - Present

Flama Craftworks

Engineering Director

Mar 2025 - Present

Flama Craftworks

Currently directing the engineering and gameplay team on Timefront, an RTS / battle-royale hybrid built in Unreal Engine 5.
Architected extensible gameplay systems for long-term feature expansion and multiplayer scalability across many concurrent actors in a single session.
Built and hire the gameplay engineering team: run technical interviews, onboarding, and mentorship for junior and mid engineers.
Partner with Cinematics, VFX, Character, and Technical Art leads to land integrated gameplay features end-to-end.
Established code-review, architecture, and Git/branching standards adopted across the engineering organisation.

Company site

Ikonic Games

Core Software Engineer

Feb 2024 - Feb 2025

Saber Interactive Porto

Tools Lead Programmer

Aug 2022 - Jan 2024

Saber Interactive Porto

Joined as Junior Multiplayer Programmer on Dakar Desert Rally: bugfixed and refactored multiplayer and replication systems to harden online play across PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
Promoted to Tools Programmer (Feb 2023): built Houdini-Engine integrations and editor tooling for the art and tech-art teams, including a Houdini integration compatible with World Partition streaming.
Promoted to Tools Lead Programmer on Road Kings (May 2023): led sprint planning, architecture reviews, and cross-department coordination for the tools team; established software architecture guidelines.

Company site

Shadow Profile

Unity Game Developer

May 2022 - Aug 2022

Dive Studios (FEUP / Visionarium)

Team Leader

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

03 · Showcase

Games I've worked on.

PRJ / 01

Multiplayer Programmer

Dakar Desert Rally

Open-world rally simulator. Shipped on PC, PS4/5, and Xbox One/Series X.

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PRJ / 02

Engineering Director

Timefront

RTS game blending battle royale mechanics.

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PRJ / 03

Tools Lead Programmer

Road Kings

Adventure truck simulator.

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PRJ / 04

Team Lead

AutoRocket

Educational rocket simulator with visual programming, built by a team of eight.

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PRJ / 05

Totally Basketball

VR basketball game.

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PRJ / 06

Aotearoa Explorers

Educational exploration game.

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04 · Building

What I'm building.

SaaS · Public beta

Polyglyph

Founder & Engineer

An AI localization platform for game studios. Pull strings straight out of Unreal, route each job to the model you choose, review every line with your team, then ship the approved translations back into the build.

TypeScriptReactPostgresUE5 Plugin

Visit polyglyph.app

Game · In development

Synthform

Everything is cube.

A synthwave roguelite action RPG. Everything in its world is a cube, and you are the one cube that can still become something else: pick a chassis, then evolve it room by room through drafted upgrades. Built on Three.js and WebGPU, with its own engine and editor.

Three.jsWebGPUTypeScriptRoguelite

No public build yet

Game · Demo on itch.io

Counting Sheep

Count exactly. Fall asleep.

A cozy pixel-art number puzzle roguelite with deckbuilding. Every sheep is a number: huddle them to add, play cards to multiply or raise them to a power, and count each nightmare off exactly. Count too many and the extras run off into the dark.

Pixi.jsJavaScriptRoguelitePuzzle

Play the demo

Products · 5 plugins · 1 live on Fab

Unreal Engine Plugins

Modular UE5 plugins covering combat, inventory, dialog, world streaming, and multiplayer social. Each one drops into a project without dragging a framework in behind it.

C++UE5GAS

Browse the plugins

Service · Available

AI Infrastructure Consulting

Governed AI infrastructure for game studios: a knowledge layer and a layered pipeline that make adoption safe, consistent, and measurable, on whichever AI stack the studio picks.

GovernancePipelineModel-agnostic

See how it works

05 · Toolbox