Alex Petherick-brian
Senior Programmer at Novadust
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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
python10
sdl10
ui-design10
kivy10
android-ndk6
eclipse6
django-orm6
android6
ide6
formatting6
django6
java6
java-native-interface6
ios4
linux4
Programming languages (7)
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.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
RetroShare/ExampleRSPlugin
Aug 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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