About
Hi, I'm Olivia! 👋
I'm a software engineer with a passion for game development and Rust. I am the author of the Rust Sokoban Book and I've been featured on multiple Rust Game Dev Newsletters due to my work on multiple Rust projects.
I was fortunate enough to be part of Twitter 1.0 where I led various Media Infrastructure projects. Before that I was the tech lead for Maisie Williams's creative startup Daisie, working on live streaming for Amazon Video and building services and Xbox games at Microsoft.
I'm currently a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Personio where I work on building Payroll.
Contact
If you'd like to reach out, please do so at hello@iolivia.me.Blog
🧵 Rust Fundamentals - Working with options
Short intro to options: you either have a value or you don't, and you can guarantee at compile time that you are handling both None and Some…
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🧵 Rust Fundamentals - Pattern Matching
One of my favourite #rustlang compiler-driven development tricks is exhaustive matches on enums. Here is a simple example. Let's say we are…
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Making a basic game UI with imgui and ggez
In this post I'll walk you through how you can create game user interface with imgui and ggez. I spent a lot of time trying to make this…
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Entity component system (ECS) explained with tennis players and courts
In the last post I talked about a small game I built in Rust and roughly how far I got in 24 hours. One of the biggest challenges I had was…
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24 hours of game development in Rust
In this post I'll talk about a small game I've been developing in about 24 hours in total (mostly in a few hour blocks during evenings or…
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Design patterns
what are design patterns? Let's start by defining design patterns. All this talk these days, but what are they really? Well, simply put…
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FizzBuzz in 33 languages!
Updates (2024) Since this post was originally written, the FizzBuzz github repository has received 23 additional contributions so the total…
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