Hello! I am Sebastian Ahlman and this is my web site.

I live in Helsinki (the capital of Finland) where I work as a game programmer at Digital Chocolate. I enjoy writing high quality software, both at work and during my spare time. I have a passion for computer games, and most of my projects are game-related. You can find some of them here on sebastian-ahlman.fi. Feel free to download anything you find interesting.

I feel that many software developers nowadays concentrate too much on their favorite platforms, programming languages and APIs. I try to do the opposite by constantly trying out new technologies as I get the opportunity. Even though I mostly work on Windows-based computers using the programming languages C/C++, C# and VB6/VB.NET, I have also written applications for the mobile Symbian S60 platform using Symbian C++ and the Apple Mac OSX platform using Cocoa and Objective-C. I also highly enjoy working with scripting languages such as Lua. Recently I have begun exploring the iPhone platform and what can be done with it, expecially when using OpenGL ES. At work I am being kept busy by Java on various mobile platforms.

In my game projects I have used both Managed DirectX, OpenGL ES 1.1 for mobile devices, and the very nice open source graphics rendering engine OGRE as rendering APIs/engines. Other software I regularly use include Visual Studio, Eclipse, SQL server, Notepad++, Milkshape 3D, Carbide.c++, GIMP, Xcode and many more...

In May 2008 I gratuated from Arcada in Helsinki where I studied information technology for four years. My thesis, a client-server environment for mobile management of work shifts, is available for download here. The thesis is written in Swedish, but it contains an abstract in English. Drop me an email if you want further information, e.g. my CV.

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