Petrie Van Zyl
Game Developer at MahiGaming
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPetrie Van Zyl is a game developer based in Vancouver with 8 years of software engineering experience spanning front-end, full-stack, and game-focused roles. He blends academic depth—a Master's in Computer Science—with hands-on production work at studios and startups, currently shipping games at MahiGaming. Known for uniting design, visuals, sound, and gameplay logic, Petrie prioritizes polished, user-focused experiences and rapid adaptation to new technologies. His background includes full-stack and front-end roles that give him a pragmatic systems perspective beyond typical gameplay programming. Colleagues describe him as persistent and detail-oriented, with a penchant for exploring technical edges—his GitHub note “Exploring the universe. Staring into the abyss.” hints at a thoughtful, experimental approach to code and design. He consistently delivers effective, well-crafted features that balance creativity with engineering rigor.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
unity3d9
aws8
webgl7
terraform7
espn6
css6
dm6
terraform-provider6
chatgpt6
terraform-module5
ai5
cocos-creator5
javascript4
zap4
quake4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
p-v-z/redux-vid-zearch
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
p-v-z/FuzzyTown
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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