Chuck Smith
Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Amikumu Pty Ltd
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChuck Smith is a Berlin-based founder and iOS-focused developer with 12+ years of experience shipping native Swift and Objective-C apps since the App Store's launch. He runs indie studio Ludisto, where he designs and publishes cross-platform games and utilities—most notably What the Shell, a simultaneous-turn strategy game in public beta across iOS and Android in 10 languages with online multiplayer. Chuck has led product and technical teams at startups (Amikumu) and enterprise engagements (MBition/Mercedes), blending hands-on mobile engineering with product-minded indie publishing. His eclectic background includes Unity, Godot, MAUI/C#, video post-production for social media, and multilingual freelance translation between English, German, and Esperanto — he also founded the Esperanto Wikipedia. This mix of game design, localization, and long-term iOS expertise makes him particularly strong at projects combining language learning, board-game mechanics, and cross-platform player experiences.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science/Math, BA Computer Science/Math at Messiah University
English, German, Esperanto, French, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (20)
libretro10
discord9
api9
emulation9
linux8
frontend7
cross-platform6
forum5
chat3
chat-application3
applozic2
messaging2
chatbot2
swift2
leancloud2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tannie/LudoWebsite
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:82 pushes in 1 year 11 months
chucksmith/RetroArch
May 2019 - May 2019
Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
apilicensedjslinuxlibretro-api
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