about me

Hi! I'm Xander, a self-taught developer from Belgium. I've been teaching myself to build things since I was a kid: games first, then websites, then whatever else looked fun.

These days I'm the founder & lead dev at BuiltByIndie, I run a Discord community called The Cat Cafe, and I stream development over on Twitch.

what i work with

Game engines: Unreal Engine is home base. I also use Godot and Unity, I've poked at CryEngine and Roblox Studio, and I've built my own little OpenGL renderer from scratch in C++.

Languages: Unreal Blueprints, C#, C++, GDScript, Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Lua, C, and a bit of HLSL shader programming.

Web: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS. This site is all three.

Tools: Steamworks, Git & GitHub, Trello/Jira, Azure DevOps, Blender, Linux, Perforce.

previous adventures

• Headshot Interactive: my indie game studio, where we built the psychological thriller Abandoned
• Frontier Network: a Minecraft network that mixed skyblock with extraction-shooter mechanics

Want to chat? Everything is on the links page.