Thomas Cate
Indie Game Developer at Frozen Fractal
Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThomas Cate is an independent game developer and seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience building games, tooling, and large-scale systems. He runs Frozen Fractal, handling everything from design and graphics to publishing and marketing for innovative web and mobile titles, while remaining open to local or remote contract work. Previously a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer at Google, he brings production-grade frontend and infrastructure expertise to game development. An active open-source contributor, Thomas has improved the Godot editor, bolstered libGDX Box2D support, and refined routing behavior in the widely used gorilla/mux Go library. He combines low-level engine integration (including Rust bindings for Godot) with practical product delivery, and prefers focused collaborations over relocation or full-time roles.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc., Computing Science, Mathematics, BSc., Computing Science, Mathematics at University of GroningenComputer Science, Computer Science at University of CalgaryAletta Jacobscollege
Dutch, English, German
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url-routing10
python10
testing10
bash10
winforms10
gcc10
javas10
gorilla10
box2d10
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game-development10
godot10
javascript10
game-engine10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
godot-rust/gdext
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Rust bindings for Godot 4
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 15 commits, 24 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas's contributions primarily involve implementing core functionality for the Godot Engine's Rust bindings. This includes implementing fundamental data structures like vectors and arrays, with associated operator overloading, indexing, and conversion features. Furthermore, the user has focused on creating a comprehensive set of built-in array functionality, and adding PartialEq, Eq and clone implementations. This work directly supports the creation of Godot game logic within Rust, and highlights a focus on low-level engine integration.
gdscriptgodotgamedevrustgodot-engine
libgdx/libgdx
Oct 2012 - Oct 2017
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the libGDX game development framework by implementing and improving core features related to the Box2D physics engine, specifically adding missing wrappers and functionalities for joints. They also enhanced the testing infrastructure by enabling command-line test execution for the LwjglTestStarter. Additionally, the user introduced a new test case demonstrating the use of distance field fonts, and updated the EarClippingTriangulator with new test cases and a desperate mode.
gamejava-game2dhtml5ios
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