Balint Kiss
Game Engine Developer (Contractor) at Yigsoft
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolBalint Kiss is a senior C++ software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native and embedded systems, currently focused on game engine development as a contractor in Budapest. He combines low-level systems expertise—networking, POSIX, security and time-series ingestion—with modern cloud and microservice practices (Azure, Docker, gRPC), having delivered production IoT and SaaS features that secured strategic pilot customers. A pragmatic architect and mentor, he’s authored arc42 architecture docs, led technical interviews, and ran trainings that raised team capability. His open-source work includes refactoring and modernizing a Diablo 1 engine reimplementation, showing both love for game tech and attention to maintainable configuration and networking code. Comfortable across C++, Rust interest, Go and Python, he excels at turning complex protocols and legacy stacks into robust, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science – Software Technology specialization, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science – Software Technology specialization at Eötvös Loránd UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics Engineer - Software Development specialization, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics Engineer - Software Development specialization at Nyugat-Magyarországi Egyetem
Hungarian, English, German
Github Skills (11)
management10
configuration-management10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
parsing10
parse10
ini10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wheybags/freeablo
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Modern reimplementation of the Diablo 1 game engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Balint primarily focused on refactoring the settings implementation, replacing the boost::property_tree with simpleini for configuration management. They implemented a new settings structure and refactored the code to use the new settings class. This involved modifying the file loading, saving, and data retrieval mechanisms. Furthermore, they addressed a networking issue related to server initialization.
gamemaker-studio-2gamemakersource-enginegame-developmentminetest
balintkissdev/mycpplib
Jul 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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