Tommy Ettinger
Refractory Labourer at Local 92
Beaumont, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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RockstarTommy Ettinger is a pragmatic software engineer and longtime open-source contributor turned refractory labourer, bringing 15 years of technical experience and a relentless "commit streak" mindset to every project. Though currently working in industrial settings in Beaumont, Alberta, he remains deeply involved in game tooling—contributing key GWT backend fixes and numeric edge-case handling to the widely used libGDX framework. His work has enabled unit tests and improved font and collection utilities, showing a knack for quietly hardening core libraries that other developers rely on. Tommy combines hands-on problem solving in both physical and digital domains, favoring durable, well-tested solutions over flashy prototypes. Colleagues know him for steady, persistent contributions and an interest in shipping practical libraries for game developers. He brings a blend of blue-collar discipline and open-source craftsmanship that’s uncommon in either world.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
javas10
g10
gwt10
libgdx10
java10
game-development9
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
libgdx/libgdx
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:444 reviews, 46 commits, 69 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tommy primarily contributed to the GWT backend of the libGDX game development framework, focusing on implementing functionality for the GWT target, like double to long conversion. They also made several code improvements to the number utilities to ensure the methods work properly in GWT. Additionally, the user contributed to improvements within the BitmapFontCache and some of the core collections. The user's work appears to enable certain unit tests and fix various edge cases.
gamejava-game2dhtml5ios
tommyettinger/ShaiRandom
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Random number generators for modern .NET.
Contributions:2 releases, 34 reviews, 313 commits in 7 months
dotnetrandom-number-generatorsprngcsharp-sourcegeneratorgenerators
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