Colm Vize
Lead Developer at Artomatix, a Unity Company
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolColm Vize is a Lead Developer based in Dublin with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining complex systems at Artomatix (a Unity company). He combines backend robustness with full‑stack sensibilities, contributing to game-engine reimplementations and tooling such as a modern Diablo 1 engine and the Celview image export pipeline. Colm has a strong track record of pragmatic refactors and bug fixes in large community codebases like Goonstation, improving item and machinery interactions and stabilizing gameplay logic. He holds a Computer Science background from Trinity College Dublin and prefers working relationships rooted in prior acquaintance, reflecting a focused, no‑solicitations professional stance. Known for shipping reliable features across C++, Python and integration with archival formats, he blends deep technical craft with practical product-minded delivery.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (12)
debug10
station10
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
gameplay10
python10
dm10
videogames10
sdl9
user-interface9
cmake8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wheybags/freeablo
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Modern reimplementation of the Diablo 1 game engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Colm contributed to the development of a reimplementation of the Diablo 1 game engine. They implemented a draggable inventory feature, involving changes to Python scripts for handling user interactions and document management. Further contributions included merging master branch updates and implementing features for a Celview application, used for viewing CEL/CL2 files, including the ability to export them as PNG images, with contributions to C++ code for the application and integrating with mpq archives, showing a good grasp of both frontend and backend. Additional contributions included refactoring item management.
gamemaker-studio-2gamemakersource-enginegame-developmentminetest
goonstation/goonstation
Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
Repository for the Goonstation branch of SS13
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 26 PRs, 70 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Colm primarily addressed bug fixes and implemented minor improvements within the Goonstation codebase. Their contributions included correcting issues related to item interactions, such as off-gassing joints and cryo chambers. Additionally, they refactored code to improve mixer functionality, converting it into a proper machinery type. Furthermore, they updated descriptions and addressed minor coding issues throughout the game.
2d-gamegamess13role-playinggoonstation
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.