Michael Steenbeek
Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
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RockstarMichael Steenbeek is a commercial leader with 11 years’ experience bridging technical wholesale, construction retail, and industrial sectors, now based in Nieuwegein. He combines commercial acumen with hands-on software engineering, contributing as a back-end developer to the high-profile OpenRCT2 project where he implemented core gameplay fixes and refactors. Michael runs and maintains community resources like RCTspace and the RCT Archive and serves as an RCT Wiki admin, showing a knack for building and curating lasting technical communities. His work reveals a meticulous approach to legacy code and performance-sensitive logic, such as resolving divide-by-zero acceleration bugs and improving track type handling. Comfortable switching between commercial strategy and low-level engineering, he brings practical problem-solving and long-term stewardship to both product and community projects.
11 years of coding experience
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game-development10
cprogramming-language10
refactor9
c119
object-oriented-programming9
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c179
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 2892 reviews, 3490 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on modifying the underlying code of the game, implementing features, and fixing bugs within the core functionality of the game. This included using getters/setters for track types and directions, using track type definitions, and fixing a divide-by-zero error in the car’s acceleration logic. They were also involved with refactoring existing code and adding functionality.
re-implementationgamediscordc-plus-plussimulation
OpenRCT2/docs
Dec 2015 - Sep 2022
Documentation and gameplay manual for OpenRCT2.
Contributions:16 reviews, 39 commits, 14 PRs in 6 years 9 months
gameplaymanualopenrct2sphinx
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