About me

Hi, I’m Michael. Nice to meet you!

I’ve been in game development for the last four years before diving into Freelance mode, had my hands on 6 games in total. Prior to the game dev jobs, I’ve worked as Linux sysadmin and DevOps guy for roughly 15 years. Software development is great - but automation is still fun!

Next to the game dev jobs, I wrote “C++ Game Animation Programming, 2nd Edition” and “Mastering C++ Game Animation Programming”, both published by Packt.

I’m holding a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the FernUniversität in Hagen with a focus on computer graphics, parallel programming, and software systems. The M.Sc. was also done next to my full-time jobs.

Tech stack

Here is a list of tech stuff I’ve worked with before:

• Game development with
  • Unreal Engine 4 + 5 (Blueprints and C++)
  • Unity
  • Godot
• Console porting of Unreal Engine games to
  • Nintendo Switch™
  • Microsoft XBOX series X|S
  • Sony PlayStation® 5
• Graphics programming
  • OpenGL, Vulkan, GLSL
  • OpenXR
  • RenderDoc
• Programming languages
  • C++
  • Java
  • C
  • Assembly language (ARM Cortex, MOS 6502)
  • Python
• SCM
  • Git (i.e., GitHub, GitLab, Forgejo)
  • Perforce
• Automation
  • Jenkins, GitLab pipelines
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
• Cloud related
  • Docker + Kubernetes
  • AWS, Azure, Open Telekom Cloud
• Linux
  • Debian/Ubuntu
  • Arch
  • Alpine
  • Red Hat

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