software development   game development   systems & infrastructure

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About Me

I graduated in video game programming in 2024, learning software development primarily through C++. Over time, I went deeper into the language and into lower-level concepts such as assembly, CPU intrinsics, performance-oriented programming, and how software interacts with the hardware underneath it. It also gave me the opportunity to work with C#, different game engines, and graphics programming through HLSL shaders.

I joined Studio XP as a game programming instructor, where I now teach children how to build games using different engines and programming tools.

I decided to keep pushing further and went back to school to pursue a degree in Computer Science. That ended up connecting a lot of the missing pieces for me, and now I can't stop thinking about code, systems, and new projects to build.

struct Developer
{
    const char* focus[3] = {
        "Software Development",
        "Game Development",
        "Systems & Infrastructure"
    };

    const char* languages[7] = {
        "C",
        "C++",
        "C#",
        "JavaScript",
        "TypeScript",
        "Kotlin",
        "SQL"
    };

    const char* interests[5] = {
        "developer tooling",
        "game systems",
        "backend architecture",
        "networked software",
        "self-hosted infrastructure"
    };

    bool likesUnderstandingTheWholeStack = true;
};

Developer doku;

Technicals

Languages

Frameworks & Databases

Game Engines

Systems & Tools

Development Environment

Projects

D2Companion Desktop tooling for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Account tracking, character expiration management, gear inspection, MuleLogger imports and live packet capture through Styx. C# networking data processing game tooling Focus: integrating game data, tooling and live system interaction. Forgejo repository →

Harmony-Havoc 2D game development project A complete playable game built around gameplay logic, systems integration and bringing a full project from development to a finished result. game development 2D gameplay systems Focus: gameplay implementation and complete project delivery. Forgejo → · GitHub →

D2Dropper Remastered Modernization of an existing game-related tool Ongoing work around usability, interface improvements, search, loading workflows and progressive cleanup of an existing codebase. PHP UI software maintenance game tooling Focus: modernization and maintenance of legacy software. Forgejo repository →

Doku Lab Self-hosted development infrastructure My development platform includes a multi-node Proxmox environment, TrueNAS, Linux services, Forgejo CI runners, monitoring, backup workflows and an IaC stack built around Terraform, Ansible and Infisical. Proxmox TrueNAS Terraform Ansible Forgejo Infisical CI/CD Focus: building reproducible infrastructure and operating the platform behind my own development workflow. Forgejo IaC → · GitHub IaC →

Infrastructure & Platform

My self-hosted Forgejo instance runs on infrastructure that I operate myself.

The homelab is also an ongoing technical project spanning virtualization, storage, networking, containerized services and development infrastructure.

                              Internet
                                 |
                        router / gateway
                                 |
                           managed switch (VLAN incoming)
                                 |
          +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
          |                      |                      |                      |
      pve-core               pve-lab              pve-compute            TrueNAS SCALE
 critical services       dev / test / gaming       CI / compute          storage / data
          |                      |                      |                      |
   AdGuard DNS              Windows / Linux          Forgejo              ZFS pools
   Caddy                    workstation VMs          runners                backups
   Vaultwarden             templates / labs         automation            Nextcloud
   Infisical                GPU workloads                                    Plex
          |                      |                      |
          +----------------------+----------------------+
                                 |
                    Terraform + Ansible + Infisical
                         reproducible deployment

Cloudflare DNS / TLS  --->  public doku-lab.net services through Caddy
GitHub <-------------> Forgejo repositories / mirrored development workflows

The environment currently includes:

• three Proxmox nodes with separate critical-services, lab/workstation and compute/CI roles
• TrueNAS SCALE with ZFS-backed storage and backup workflows
• Linux virtual machines and LXC containers
• workstation and gaming VMs with shared hardware / GPU workloads
• self-hosted Forgejo repositories plus selected GitHub mirrors
• Forgejo CI runners and automated workflows
• Terraform and Ansible for reproducible infrastructure deployment
• Infisical-backed runtime secrets management
• Caddy reverse proxying with Cloudflare DNS / TLS integration
• AdGuard-backed internal DNS and service discovery
• monitoring, backup and restore workflows

Proxmox TrueNAS ZFS Linux Terraform Ansible Forgejo GitHub Infisical CI/CD Cloudflare Caddy

Hosting the repositories is only one part of the project — maintaining the platform behind them is part of the development workflow too.

What I Like Working On

software/
├── applications
├── backend systems
├── data & persistence
└── developer tooling

game-dev/
├── gameplay systems
├── tools
├── engine work
└── technical experimentation

systems/
├── virtualization
├── networking
├── storage
├── automation
└── self-hosting

I am particularly interested in projects where those areas overlap: software that interacts closely with an existing system, tools that make complicated workflows easier to understand, and infrastructure that I can build and operate rather than treat as a black box.

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_{build it   //   understand it   //   improve it}

_{Profile design inspired in part by jaenster.}