Bill Forster
Engineer at triplehappy.com
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBill Forster is a veteran embedded systems and desktop applications engineer with over 12 years of professional experience and roots in assembly through C and C++. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he runs boutique software house triplehappy.com, where he develops chess software and takes on contract work in embedded and desktop C/C++ projects. His background spans consumer electronics and gaming studios, including Philips and Sidhe Interactive, giving him a practical blend of low-level hardware insight and user-facing application design. Comfortable as a solo freelancer or contractor, he emphasizes speed and value—“good, fast, cheap—pick all three”—while still coding for the joy of solving tricky technical problems. An electrical engineering graduate from the University of Canterbury, he brings decades of hands-on development and a willingness to tackle legacy and performance-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electrical Engineering, BE, Electrical Engineering at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (29)
uci10
chess10
workbench10
chess-engine10
enums9
gtk9
wxwidgets9
cpp9
embedded9
gui-framework8
x118
linux8
windows8
cocoa8
macos7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
billforsternz/retro-sargon
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
This is a project to bring the code from the book "Sargon a computer chess program" back to life in the modern era
Contributions:4 releases, 244 commits, 100 pushes in 1 year 10 months
cpplifeera
billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui
Feb 2014 - Oct 2022
A portable, simple, desktop workbench for chess players and analysts
Contributions:24 releases, 826 commits, 5 PRs in 8 years 10 months
playersworkbenchanalystsucichess-engine
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