Samuel Nicholas
Self Employed
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Nicholas is a versatile consultant and software engineer with 13 years of experience blending hands-on development, devops, and practical consulting for individuals and SMEs from Adelaide. He builds games and tooling (Unity, Godot, C#, C++, GDscript) and contributes to notable open-source projects like the Spring RTS engine where he improved map loading, rendering, and memory handling. Equally comfortable teaching one-on-one Salsa and Bachata or designing low-cost home automation and IoT proof-of-concepts, he brings a multidisciplinary, user-focused approach to problem solving. With degrees in Computer Science and Computer Graphics Programming plus network administration training, he combines formal computer science foundations with creative tinkering and a network of trusted partners to deliver pragmatic solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of AdelaideCertificate III, Information Technology (Network Administration), Certificate III, Information Technology (Network Administration) at TAFE SA
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Github Skills (8)
rt10
lua10
cpp10
game-engine10
cplus10
opengl9
initialization6
arduino6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spring/spring
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the game engine's map-related functionalities. They fixed memory issues within the grassmap processing, optimized whitespace in code files, and implemented features to specify minimap textures in the mapinfo.lua files. The user also added support for overriding infomaps via Lua configuration, enhancing map customization. These changes suggest a focus on improving map loading, rendering, and data handling within the Spring RTS game engine.
luamantisspringrtsrtsc-plus-plus
enetheru/build-automation
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:240 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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