Kylie Smith
Python Developer at Zudello
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKylie Smith is a versatile Python developer and founder with 10 years of experience building scalable web and gaming systems, including products serving over 500,000 users and a Club Penguin Recreation that attracted over 1,000,000 users. She blends back-end engineering, networking and game development—working across Python, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript and Unity—to deliver robust, test-driven solutions and microservices architectures. As founder of Twisted.bet she architected a crypto-first casino with custom wallet and real-time reconciliation, analytics pipelines, and AML-aware transaction engines, while running Trapdoor Studios for R&D and bespoke engineering. Kylie contributes to notable open-source projects like Panda3D (improving its LevelEditor and dcparser portability), demonstrating hands-on full-stack and tooling expertise. Based in Brisbane, she pairs formal studies in computer and biomedical sciences with a practical knack for shipping production-ready systems and bridging domain knowledge with engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology (Computer Science), Bachelor's degree, Information Technology (Computer Science) at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Biomedical Science - BBiomedSc, Bachelor of Biomedical Science - BBiomedSc at The University of QueenslandHigh School, Year 12 Graduate, High School, Year 12 Graduate at Cannon Hill Anglican College
English
Github Skills (10)
panda3d10
cross-platform10
game-development10
game-engine10
python10
wxpython10
cprogramming-language9
cplus9
c-language9
cpp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
panda3d/panda3d
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kylie primarily contributed to the LevelEditor within the Panda3D game engine, fixing relative imports and updating code to use `panda3d.core`. They addressed deprecation warnings and errors in the LevelEditor related to wx widgets. Furthermore, they implemented changes related to the dcparser, allowing it to compile outside of Panda. They also added missing control message types.
pythonc-plus-plusmulti-platformenginepanda3d-game-engine
ksmit799/POTCO-PS
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Pirates Online - Private Server is an Astron based, open source project aiming to emulate POTCO using the 2013 source files.
Contributions:39 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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