G'day! I'm Philpax¹IPA /ˈfɪl.pæks/. he/him., a creative polyglot programmer/engineer, and I'm passionate about computers, how we interact with them, and how we can use them to empower people. My real name is Mithun²IPA /mɪθʌn/. also, unbelievably, he/him., but let's keep that between friends, family and employers. I hark from the distant southern lands of Australia, and currently live in Sweden. Welcome to my humble website!

I currently work at Overworld, but have previously worked at Ambient, Avalanche Studios, Lexer, and more. In the open-source world, I have designed the GGUF file format for llama.cpp, co-developed Just Cause 2: Multiplayer, and design and run the plugin bureaucracy for Dalamud.³I played through A Realm Reborn as a White Mage and quit shortly after. This means I have spent years of my life on an ecosystem for a game that I have barely played. Someone's gotta oil the bureaucratic gears!

I've worked with every layer of the stack - from the little electrons racing around my workbench, to software riding high enough for Snoop Dogg to call for advice - and I can be found exploring any number of things.

These days, my curiosity wanders through product engineering, game reverse engineering, low-level and embedded work, VR/AR, and AI productionisation - with detours into open-source community-wrangling, photography, and writing (including editing yours).

If you'd like to know more about what I've worked on or built, why not check out my GitHub?

I can be contacted via email, Bluesky, Mastodon, or your nearest @philpax profile (it's probably me).