V8 was born the same year as the original PlayStation. Growing up, His form of exposure to video games was watching his older brother playing them. Hardly having the chance to play the games for himself only makes him even more fascinated by them. During that time, the games he enjoyed and finished were Ratchet and Clank (PS2) and Devil May Cry 3 (PS2). After graduating from The One Academy, he joined Passion Republic as an animator and got to work on animations for Gears of War 4 & 5 and Astral Chain. He was also lead animator for the studio's first original game: Giga Bash.

V8 left Passion Republic in 2021 and started working on Katana Rama with the help of some talented friends in the local game industry. And on april 2022, An internal team was formed and settled on a name: Ghost Machine.