Justin Hirsch
Founder at Blowfish Studios
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Hirsch is a founder and senior Unity/C# engineer with 14 years of experience building commercially shipped games and bespoke tooling from Greater Melbourne. He has led technical teams and architecture for titles like Fortunes of the Brave and HyperTrax, and has deep experience in gameplay systems, math/physics, optimisation and scalable code design. As founder of Map Alerts he combines product-minded engineering with real-time event systems, and his GitHub work improving Python bindings for the high-performance XRootD project shows comfort bridging native backends to higher-level interfaces. He routinely pairs solo-engineering wins (mobile multiplayer, custom AI and networking) with team leadership, code review and client-facing demos—bringing both creative polish and production discipline to projects.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Screen Animation and Multimedia, Distinction, Diploma of Screen Animation and Multimedia, Distinction at SAE InstituteBachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) at Curtin UniversityBachelors of Information Technology, Games & Graphics Programming, Distinction, Bachelors of Information Technology, Games & Graphics Programming, Distinction at RMIT University
English
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Github Skills (10)
python10
x10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
unit-testing9
unity-networking6
wix6
coroutines6
unity-game-engine6
windows-installer6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
XRootD official repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:291 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin focused on developing and implementing features for XRootD's Python bindings. Their contributions included adding directories for unit tests, removing unnecessary packages from setup.py, implementing methods to read data in chunks, and integrating the XrdCl::StatInfo data type. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and usability of the Python interface to the XRootD backend.
tarballxrootdstorageaixdistributed-file-system
CosmicPi/cosmicpi.org
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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