Tom Rothamel
Software Engineer at SolarTrak
Town of Smithtown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Rothamel is a seasoned software engineer and longtime open-source lead with 20 years of experience, best known as the lead developer of the Ren'Py visual novel engine. He blends academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Computer Science with practical engineering, contributing back-end improvements—like refined input handling, UI value bounds, and updater proxying—that enhance the user experience of a widely used engine. Concurrently engineering at SolarTrak and Solar Technology, Inc., Tom applies his expertise to production systems while maintaining an active role in a beloved community project. Based in Smithtown, New York, he brings a rare combination of research-grade problem solving and hands-on, user-focused software craftsmanship.
20 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (7)
renpy10
game-development10
python10
computer-engineering9
ui-design7
graphical-user-interface7
user-interface7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
renpy/renpy
Feb 2006 - Jan 2023
The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 18 reviews, 10664 commits in 17 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions primarily focused on implementing the `keyboard_focus_insets` style property to handle overlapping buttons and adding the `min` and `max` arguments to the `BarValues` class. The changes indicate the user worked on improving the user experience and functionality of the Ren'Py visual novel engine. Further contributions involved incorporating proxies into the updater and fetching mechanisms, along with improvements to other features.
pythongamevisual-novelvisualrenpy
renpy/id
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:124 commits, 1 PR, 112 pushes in 1 year 6 months
directorrenpythonren-py
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