Rokki CH

Impressum

Game studio / IT work

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Joni Orponen
Orponen / CHE-437.638.699
Einzelfirma / Sole proprietorship
Gurtenbrauerei 78, 3084 Wabern, Switzerland
Waldweg 6, 3072 Ostermundigen, Switzerland

Brewery

Rokki
Brauerei Nr. 678

I'm currently not available for hire.

My own releases

No releases yet

Previous Clients

Dodreams Ltd.

Technologies

Cocos2D / SpriteBuilder / Objective-C
OpenGL / Shader work
SpriteKit / Swift
Porting to Android with the Apportable stack

History

C64 at age 6
NES at age 7
DOS at age 8
Sega Megadrive at age 10
Nintendo 64 at age 12
Mostly PC gaming from there onwards
Dabbled in competitive PC gaming
Founding Chairman of Polygame ry
Involvement in open source game projects since 2004
Professional game development in Helsinki, Finland since 2010
Professional game development in Bern, Switzerland since 2014

My own releases

No releases yet

Technologies

iOS
Objective-C
Swift
Universal apps, which work in all device orientations
Porting to Android with the Apportable stack

Interests

Having a clean MVC design
Keeping the code simple and clean to enable easier collaboration
Onboarding experience improvements
Proper internationalization
Backporting fixes to legacy versions of applications
Forward porting an old app (ie. iOS 5 to iOS 8, 32bit to 64bit)
Advertisement network integrations and optimization

My brews

Also available for

Collaboration brews
Beer tastings
- Can be hosted anywhere with seating and a table
- For 5..30 people
- 6 beers, 6 x 1dl per person
  - + calibration drink
  - + palate cleansing bread
- 3..4 hours
- Pamphlet to take home
- Flat rate CHF 500 for expertise
  - + cost of beer
  - + cost of venue
- Great for corporate events!
- Available in various themes
  - Beers of the world (introduction to beer varieties)
    - Recommended for long time lager drinkers!
  - Hop overdose
  - Sour ales
    - Recommended for white wine lovers!
  - Belgian extravaganza
  - They like to overdo things in America...
  - Nordic ales (reservations 3 months in advance)
  - Winter warmers
  - Finest Swiss breweries
  - And more!
- Languages
  - English
  - Finnish

IT

I have a passion for optimizing the bang per buck in a system.

I thoroughly enjoy tinkering with automating deployments.

Proper CI starts with a developer-side pre-commit hook.

All the Agile/TDD/CI you do will always let something slip through - reporting and metrics are the key.

There is a lot of merit in offloading as much as possible to the client side.

I have no problems with the idea of mixing new and old ideas; ie. I prefer using real hardware for the bulk traffic and cloud services for helping with peak loads.

I actually like XML.

Technologies

Devops experience, general UNIX - oldschool or modern
- Centos
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- IPv4 and IPv6 /w iptables and (RHEL) firewall-cmd
- Systemd
- Nginx
- Apache Traffic Server
- Postfix
- Dovecot
- MySQL / Percona
- PostgreSQL
- Heroku
- AWS
- Digital Ocean
- Plain old hardware
- Instancing static files / CDN setups
CI experience /w automatic deployments
- Jenkins (hosting /w Jetty)
- XCode Server
Python 2 / 3 experience
- Plone
- Flask
- Tornado
- PyPy
- Gunicorn / Grainbows
Ruby experience
- Rails
- Sinatra
- JRuby
- Rubinius
- Puma
- Unicorn / Rainbows
GIS
- OSM
Can touch PHP projects
- Optimizing hosting costs
- Migrating to new environments
- Keeping old legacy projects as-is and still working in your new modern intranet
- HHVM
New shiny things I'd be interested in
- PyPy-stm
- Building something latency-aware and intercontinental