Freelance systems developer
Freelance systems developer. I work close to the metal: networking, engine internals, backends, and the security work that goes with all three. Nine years of it, starting at fourteen.
The through-line is verification. Signed releases, build identities that refuse a mismatch instead of hoping, and update paths that fail closed rather than guess.
Neither of these products is mine. The work in them is. That is what contract work looks like, and it is most of what I do.
thezconnect.com
A student network built around a single card: campus discounts, mentorship and opportunities in one membership, with the partner and branch tooling behind it.
I develop and maintain it for the people who own it. Next.js and Node on the front, Prisma over Postgres underneath.
A cross-platform port of Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour. The game and the engine are not mine. EA released the source under GPL v3, and a chain of community forks did the foundational work long before I touched it.
We took fbraz3/GeneralsX as the base and built on top of it: getting it building on the Mac, then getting all four platforms into the same match without desyncing. Twelve players is next.
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I take contract work: systems, networking, backends, and the security side of all three. The Z Connect is a product I develop for its owners, and GeneralsX is a port I contribute to. Neither one is mine.
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The sister company that runs everything behind Betarabia, under the same ownership.
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The part of the work I am best at is the part I cannot show you. Findings belong to the companies that commissioned them, and a writeup with a recognisable target costs them more than it credits me, so none of it is published. Ask me directly instead.
at 14
Where it started, on Growtopia: save.dat builders, mods, proxies and internals, and I ran Nusumu.wtf. Taking apart a binary someone else shipped, and working out what the client could be made to say to the server, is where everything above came from.
Two kinds of work. Say which one, and what the system or the target is. I will tell you if it is a fit before anything else.
GeneralsX needs your own copy of Zero Hour installed. It ships no EA game data and does not modify your existing installation; it installs beside it. The engine is GPL v3, built on EA's source release and the community forks credited above; source at github.com/wh1ter0se69.
| Platform | Arch | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | x86-64 | available |
| macOS | arm64 | unreleased |
| Linux | x86-64 | unreleased |
| iPadOS | arm64 | unreleased |
This executable is not code-signed. Windows will warn you, and you have no reason to take my word for any of this. Check the file yourself before you run it.
8fbbd76105b000e4af080e8bd150eea8db9c56bdcb05dee6f5924b02bb732dca
certutil -hashfile GeneralsX-Setup-8fbbd761.exe SHA256
Get-FileHash .\GeneralsX-Setup-8fbbd761.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Those 64 characters are the hash the installer itself enforces, and the VirusTotal link points at that same digest rather than at the filename. If what you compute does not match what is printed here, do not run it.