Björn Gamescom
Product Manager at defold
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarBjörn Game is a Product Manager and hands-on back-end developer with 13 years of experience, based in Stockholm. He is a core contributor and product owner of Defold, a free cross-platform game engine, where he focuses on Lua-related tooling, build engineering and resource loading improvements that enable desktop, mobile and web game delivery. Björn blends product leadership with low-level engineering—shipping parser fixes, Android app bundle enhancements and build support for new platforms—so he understands both roadmap trade-offs and implementation details. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge developer experience and production reliability, and his work often surfaces in hard-to-notice but critical build and runtime fixes.
13 years of coding experience
English, Swedish
Github Skills (13)
lua10
build-system10
build-automation9
game-dev9
game-development9
game-engine9
c-language8
codegen8
android-development8
bytecode8
cprogramming-language8
continuous-integration7
cin7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
defold/defold
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, console, mobile and web games.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1607 reviews, 882 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Björn contributed to the Defold engine repository by focusing on bug fixes and features related to the Lua scripting language and the build process. Their work included addressing issues in the Lua parser, such as handling single-line and multi-line code, and improving the build system by adding support for new platforms and features like including Lua bytecode deltas. They also addressed issues in the resource loading system and enhanced Android app bundle creation.
defoldgame-enginemobilec-plus-plusclojure
britzl/defold-training_intermediate
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 3 days
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