Alex Petherick-brian
Senior Programmer at Chozabu
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Petherick-brian is a Senior Programmer based in London with 15 years of hands-on experience delivering practical, performance-minded solutions across gameplay systems, engine modification and tools. He blends pragmatic engineering with curiosity—comfortable using proven approaches while actively learning new languages and paradigms—and has led backend and frontend efforts as CTO-level technical lead. At Novadust he spans gameplay, optimization, tech art and pipeline tooling, and his open-source contributions to the widely used Kivy UI framework include bug fixes, joystick support and file-chooser improvements, demonstrating cross-platform UI and input expertise. Equally at home researching and shipping solo projects through Chozabu, he pairs systems-level thinking with creative problem solving and a track record of turning tricky bugs into reliable features.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Wales, AberystwythPCFESands School
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Github Skills (16)
ui-design10
python10
kivy10
sdl10
ide6
android-ndk6
eclipse6
java-native-interface6
django-orm6
android6
django6
java6
macos4
linux4
ios4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/kivy
Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Kivy UI framework by addressing bugs and implementing new features related to user interface elements and input handling. They fixed a cursor position issue in text input, and added and tested features for joystick support in the SDL2 windowing backend. Furthermore, the user made contributions to the file chooser functionality and refactored various components.
androidioslinuxmacospython
chozabu/pypolypart
Nov 2014 - Nov 2018
Partial Cython wrapper for https://code.google.com/p/polypartition/ - you can chuck a list of tuples representing a polygon at it and get a list of triangles and convex hulls
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years
convex-hullcythontuples
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