Robert Hulzing
Senior Engineer at Smarter Reality
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Hulzing is a Senior Engineer based in Austin with over a decade of professional experience building C++, Unity, and mobile games for iPhone and Android. He has a strong track record in the slots and mobile gaming industries, having led tool and pipeline development at Aristocrat that saved teams days or weeks per title. His background spans firmware and handset porting to full game development, reflecting deep low-level and application-layer expertise. Robert contributes to open-source tooling as well, having helped establish a Laravel tagging package that added grouped-tag support for Eloquent models. He combines practical, hands-on engineering with a focus on developer productivity and shipped products across small studios and large gaming vendors. Currently open to new opportunities, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a history of delivering measurable team efficiency gains.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Game Design and Development, Bachelors, Game Design and Development at Full Sail University
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Github Skills (14)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
object-oriented-programming10
laravel10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
cakephp9
git6
windows6
html6
css6
javascript6
sql6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rtconner/laravel-tagging
Jan 2014 - Apr 2022
Tag support for Laravel Eloquent models - Taggable Trait
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 1 review, 249 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the development of a Laravel-based tagging system for Eloquent models. Their initial commit established the foundation with core files such as Tag.php, Taggable.php, Tagged.php, and database migrations. The user then integrated the system by renaming some classes and methods. They added a new method to get tags from the model, including the functionality to create groups for tags.
laravel-eloquent
rtconner/laravel-addresses
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 7 months
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