SteveĀ Loma
Information Technology Consultant
California, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Summary
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RockstarSteve Loma is an Information Technology Consultant with seven years of hands-on experience specializing in back-end game logic and systems engineering. Based in California and contributing internationally, he maintains a branch of one of the largest open-source games and has deep BYOND expertise across major SS13 branches like tgstation, goonstation, and cmss13. His work emphasizes performance optimization, refactoring large legacy codebases, and building tooling for profiling and advanced data querying (including SDQL2 and BYOND-Tracy support). Steve routinely converts messy typepaths, datumizes structures, and resolves intricate runtime and concurrency issues that improve stability and gameplay. Comfortable operating at both feature and infrastructure levels, he brings a pragmatic mix of debugging rigor and gameplay-driven design sense. His background shows a rare combination of community-maintained open-source stewardship and production-focused consulting.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
ss10
debug10
station10
gameplay10
beyond-compare10
back-end-development10
configuration-management10
playing10
dm10
mechanics10
role-manager10
gstat10
game-development10
backend10
logic10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cmss13-devs/cmss13
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contains the code for CM-SS13
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:844 reviews, 10 commits, 366 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on implementing features and refactoring code related to game mechanics within the BYOND engine, as evidenced by the addition of BYOND-Tracy support for profiling and debugging. Their work included substantial changes like datumizing data structures and implementing SDQL2, a SQL-styled query language for advanced data manipulation. Furthermore, the user engaged in code cleanup and optimization, converting typepaths to lowercase across multiple files.
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goonstation/goonstation
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Repository for the Goonstation branch of SS13
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 62 commits, 95 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributes to the game logic and features, focusing on the BYOND scripting language used in the Goonstation branch of SS13. Their commits implement new mechanics such as a wiretap upgrade and voice changers, modify existing systems like the trader and chemistry modules, and introduce new game modes. They show a focus on gameplay features, balancing, and adding new items with associated functionality within the game's established systems.
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