Dennis Duda
Senior Software Engineer at NZXT, Inc.
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolDennis Duda is a Senior Software Engineer in Wuppertal with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable, low-level systems and product-facing software. He started programming at 10 and brings a correctness-first mindset to firmware and driver work, having implemented USB HID protocols, a pure-Rust kernel driver wrapper for Windows, and a major device framework refactor at NZXT. Prior roles include architecting customizable 3D product configurators and an in-house framework while mentoring juniors, demonstrating strength across backend, tooling, and frontend boundaries. An active reverse engineer and debugger, he has fixed elusive, system-freezing bugs via profiling and DLL injection and contributed precise, accuracy-focused patches to notable open-source projects like the devilution Diablo engine. He identifies as a Rustacean and PC enthusiast, and explicitly avoids crypto/blockchain work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Information Technology, Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Information Technology at Berufskolleg am Haspel WuppertalAbitur, Abitur at Städtisches Gymnsium Sedanstraße, Wuppertal
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Github Skills (16)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
reverse-engineering10
refactoring10
refactor10
binarydiff9
debug9
vbnet6
transparency6
generics6
aero6
winforms6
roslyn6
wpf6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
diasurgical/devilution
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Diablo devolved - magic behind the 1996 computer game
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:144 commits, 22 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dennis focused on refactoring and optimizing the game's core logic, specifically the spell and monster-related functions within the Diablo engine's C++ code. Their work involved rewriting key functions like `GetManaAmount` to ensure their decompiled code matched the original game, and refactoring code to increase binary accuracy. They also contributed to the integration of new features and bug fixes.
hellfiregamedevilutionmagiccomputer-game
seritools/devil-nightly
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Nightly/experimental build of Devilution
Contributions:104 pushes, 22 branches in 28 days
devilutionnightly
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