Karl Zylinski
Programming Educator And Game Developer
Uppsala, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl 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.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Game Programming (did not graduate), Game Programming (did not graduate) at University of SkövdeBachelor's degree, Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor's degree, Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University
Github Skills (71)
programming-language10
interpreter10
embedded10
game-development10
game-engine10
linux10
compiler10
webassembly10
opengl10
raylib10
stack-based10
vorbis10
mp310
wav10
wasapi10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KarlZylinski/Bowtie
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:297 commits in 9 months
karl-zylinski/Odin
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Odin Programming Language
Contributions:181 pushes, 123 branches in 2 years 11 months
odin-programming-languagecompilerprogramming-languageinterpreterodin
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