Karl Zylinski
Sweden, United States
Summary
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RockstarKarl Zylinski is a programming educator and game developer with 13 years of experience building game engines, tools, and playable experiences from concept to release. He authored "Understanding the Odin Programming Language" and has hands-on expertise integrating Odin into commercial engines, designing APIs, and writing bridging engine code. As an indie creator he ships complete games—programming, design, art, music, sound and marketing—demonstrating rare full-stack game craftsmanship. His background includes engine-level work at Bitsquid/Autodesk and Our Machinery and gameplay and multiplayer systems for A Way Out at Hazelight. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he blends a physicist’s attention to detail with a maker’s independence, often exploring low-level language and tooling problems most developers leave untouched.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (69)
programming-language10
esp3210
embedded10
game-development10
game-engine10
sublime-text10
linux10
compiler10
webassembly10
opengl10
raylib10
mp310
wav10
odin-programming-language10
videogames10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KarlZylinski/Bowtie
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:297 commits in 9 months
karl-zylinski/xcb_vulkan
Aug 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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