suza

I’ve been interested in computers ever since I got my first one at the age of four ( shout out to my uncle ). Ever since then, I was always curious to mess around and tinker, and I knew this was the field I wanted to get into.

I'm mainly interested in low-level programming and back-end development.
I wish I had been born a bit earlier to experience hardware back when you were forced to know it inside out and be smart about it. I'm always excited hearing stories about having to optimize games back in the day.
I've also done my fair share of front-end development, despite not being a fan of it ( my design skills are lacking ).

So far, my experience is fairly limited. My only 'professional' experience was during high school, when I completed an internship at a prefecture. There wasn't any coding involved, but it was fun.

Most of my experience comes from personal projects. From around 2020 to 2023, I was the sole ( lead ) developer of a gaming community ( NecGaming ) for a game called Team Fortress 2. At the time, it was one of the biggest servers. As dumb as it might sound, the server was an amalgamation of a decade's worth of boilerplate code & band-aid fixes from previous developers ( no ill intentions towards them, they were caused by different devs chiming it throughout the years with various levels of skills and time, myself included at the beginning ). The bulk of my work ended up being behind the scenes, refactoring, rewriting and fixing countless systems and tools ( the error logs & plugins that weren't even working were off the roof ). Most of the issues stemmed from the nature of the game. The modding framework was based on reverse engineering of the game, so updates could break or change things that worked before.

I've also contributed my fair share of new content, especially features that had never been created or discovered before. Most of the work is closed source since it was developed specifically for that community, but I made the more interesting ones open source for everyone to use.

I learned a lot from that experience: programming, reverse engineering, how computers think, how game engines work, Git, various programming languages, and discovered programming communities ( and friends ). I loved pulling all-nighters trying to figure things out.

Over the years, I've worked on multiple personal projects ( some have been made public, and some are still in the backburner ), and I've also contributed to some open source projects. Notably: