Andrea Pessino

Andrea co-founded Ready At Dawn® in 2003 and serves as Chief Technical Officer, overseeing the engineering efforts of the company and pursuing special R&D projects.

From 1998 to 2003 Andrea was a Senior Software Engineer with Blizzard Entertainment® where he authored core technologies for several blockbusters in the WarCraft® franchise. Before Blizzard, he was a Senior Software Scientist with MetaCreations®, writing a number of seminal graphics applications, including: Kai′s Power Tools®, Kai′s Photo Soap®, Kai′s Photo Show®, Bryce® and Kai′s Power Goo®, for which he received numerous industry accolades, including the 1996 PC Magazine "Graphics Software of the Year" award.

A classically trained musician, Andrea has degrees in composition, harmony and music theory, and he is an accomplished pianist and composer. He continues to write for the concert hall and for games. His orchestration work on the cinematics for Blizzard′s Diablo II® earned him the 2001 IGDA Game Developers Choice Award for "Excellence in Audio."

A native of Italy, Andrea has lived and worked in California since 1990.