Paavo Huhtala
Software Developer at Reaktor
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolPaavo Huhtala is a Helsinki-based software developer with 12 years of professional experience, currently building software at Reaktor after earning a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki. He brings practical full-stack sensibilities and a strong C# background, demonstrated by back-end contributions to OpenSAGE—a community reimplementation of the SAGE RTS engine—where he handled registry-based installation resolution, game data loading, and UI-related features. Early hands-on roles included MSSQL analysis, C# LINQ tooling, web scraping with JavaScript, and IT support, showing comfort across databases, automation and ops. Colleagues know him for steady, detail-oriented problem solving and for shipping pragmatic refactors that keep legacy systems working reliably. Quietly, he pairs hobbyist interest in game-engine internals with professional delivery skills, which helps him bridge creative and engineering-minded projects.
12 years of coding experience
Kalajoen LukioBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Helsinki
English, Finnish, Swedish
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Github Skills (14)
game-development10
csharp10
game-engine10
game-dev10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
netcore6
ieee6
floating-point6
hlsl6
visual-studio6
sse6
directx6
msbuild6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSAGE/OpenSAGE
Oct 2017 - Nov 2022
OpenSAGE is a free, open source re-implementation of SAGE, the 3D real time strategy (RTS) engine used in Command & Conquer: Generals and other RTS titles from EA Pacific. Written in C#. Not affiliated with EA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 211 commits, 73 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paavo primarily worked on implementing core features related to the game's functionality. Their commits involved resolving game installation paths using the Windows registry and modifying game data loading. The user also added support for a special registry key, refactored code, and added features for character selection and the main menu. These changes were crucial for proper operation of the game.
re-implementationgameea-pacificc-plus-plusstrategy
paavohuhtala/squakey
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
A code formatter for QuakeC
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
rustformatterquakeccode-formatter
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