José Rafael Marcano

José Rafael Marcano Santelli is a Venezuelan engineer and videogame developer.

First years and education José Rafael discovered programming at the age of eleven and has stated that by that time he decided that it was the profession he wanted to pursue. His first video game console was an Atari 2600 in the late 1970s. He began studying with specialized books and magazines, as well as learning English, and started saving part of his allowance to buy a computer. His parents decided to make up the rest of the price to buy an 8-bit Sinclair. Later he was able to acquire a 16k memory computer and with them he learned to program in BASIC.

He began studying systems engineering at the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, culminating his studies at the International Computing School, in the Chacao municipality.