Anthony Tešija
Developer · Designer · Experiences · Visuals
Anthony Tešija (he/him) is a Croatian-American Senior Software Engineer and Game Developer in San Francisco CA
Game Developer
Designer, developer, and artist on fourty plus independent games. Creator and maintainer of libraries focused on making game development easier and more accessible which are used by other game makers around the world. My games tend to be bright and colorful with interesting twists on local multiplayer and exploration. I make games to bring people together.
Software Engineer
Senior software engineer with over ten years experience as a developer, technical lead, and engineering manager.
Discord
Developer advocate focused on improving developer experience and building tools to help developers create amazing apps, bots, and games. Driving adoption of new platform features through documentation, sample code, and direct developer engagement.
Buck
VFX for The Electric State: Kid Cosmo
Echo Chess
Development and design for the daily puzzle game Echo Chess where you are what you eat.
Handstand
Developed software for a fully customizable, installation-based escape room in Unity that worked with custom hardware via COM serial ports and allowed for remote access and updates.
Enhancing catalog and search for the ecommerce platform store.google.com.
One More Multiverse
Full stack senior engineer in charge of game feel and the combat system.
Apartment List
Senior engineer over a suite of Ruby on Rails micro services that included billing, leases, and the flow of all properties available on the site. Helped build a service using machine learning to detect watermarks on all incoming images. Led a small team to expose rent specials in a more meaningful way to differentiate the platform from competitors.
Snagit - TechSmith
Five years experience as a developer, technical lead, and engineering manager for the award winning screen capture tool Snagit focused on computer vision and drawing tools.
Live Visuals
Using Unity and custom controllers I've built my own VJ software that I use to create music videos, TikToks, and custom live visuals for bands and DJs. I've played the iconic SF venues The Independent, Rickshaw Stop, Gray Area, and Bottom of the Hill with the bands OVRGRWN and Your Fearless Leader. I'm the resident VJ for the underground venue The Spacement and I organized and ran visuals for Fanime Con in San Jose with an average of 34,000 attendees.
Mixed Media Art
Designer and creator whose mediums include ink, pencil, acrylic paint, cardboard, cloth, thread, wood, rope, and digital art. Collaborated with musicians to create show posters, stickers, album art, and music visualizers for their work. Designed and built shelves, plant hangers, and pots. Designed, created, and modified custom clothing and masks.
Chef
Chef focused on catering high quality meals for small parties with local, sustainable, in-season ingredients. My experimentally flavored cookies have been sold in coffee shops around San Francisco and I sell the frozen dough directly to customers.
