Ruben Lousberg

IT supporter who writes the software the office actually needs, and has been modding games since long before that.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

You never stop learning, and you never should. I am always eager to dive into a challenge and understand how things work. Curiosity fuels my passion for IT, and I bring a keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence to everything I build.

Chronicle

From Belgian Limburg to Denmark Midtjylland, with a few detours through game engines and a career change.

  1. Always a computer in the house

    Limburg, Belgium. By the time I got my own PC I already had a good grasp of what a computer could do, and I wanted to know how it did it.

  2. Things got out of hand fast

    Mods and plugins for Minecraft, then Skyrim through the Creation tools, then Project Zomboid, where I still maintain mods for a lot of players today. Modding also taught me exactly where the walls are.

  3. Sosu assistant, specialised in elderly care

    I trained and worked in care in Belgium. It was good work, but my passion for IT burned brighter than my passion for helping people, and I did not want to spend the rest of my life ignoring that.

  4. Moved to Denmark, alone, as Covid ended

    New country, new language, new career. I learned Danish and started as an IT supporter.

  5. Walls found, engines changed

    Hitting the limits of modding pushed me into Unity, where most of my programming foundations came from. I never shipped a game with it. When the 2023 pricing change landed, I moved to Unreal Engine and later picked up Godot.

  6. Supporter by day, programmer by trade

    I finish my IT supporter apprenticeship on 8 January, then continue at the same workplace as a datatekniker specialising in programming.

Territories

What I work with, and what I do when I am not working.

Skills

  • Programming Java, HTML5/CSS, SQL, Python, C# (preferred), C++
  • Virtualization VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Unraid, VirtualBox
  • Servers Windows and Linux
  • Software Photoshop/GIMP, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, game engines
  • Automation internal tools, ERP integrations
  • Spoken languages Dutch, Danish and English

Hobbies

  • Gaming when I am not tinkering and have free time
  • Game modding Minecraft, Skyrim, Project Zomboid, Rimworld
  • Game engines Unity C#, Unreal Engine BP/C++, Godot C#/GDScript
  • Listening to music making music wasn't for me
  • Home lab building and maintaining it

Works

Things I built, maintain, and occasionally break.

Project Zomboid mods

235,033total unique downloads
137,997Torch
85,336Recipes+
11,700More Bottles

  • Torch

    Build 41 / 42
    Torch mod for Project Zomboid

    My most downloaded Project Zomboid mod, kept up to date across game versions.

  • Recipes+

    Build 41
    Recipes+ mod for Project Zomboid

    32 additional recipes for vanilla items, with metalworking and tailoring recipes that give XP. Includes community-contributed Russian and Korean translations.

  • More Bottles

    Build 41
    More Bottles mod for Project Zomboid

    One of my earliest Zomboid mods, still available on the Steam Workshop.

Work projects

Details coming soon.

  • OIOUBL billing automation

  • Tools inside our ERP system and around it

Home lab

Where I test things before I trust them at work.

32 TB NAS storage, 2.5G to 10G networking, running Plex, game servers, automation and a VPN.

Network

Hardware

  • UCG-Fiber (30W): WAN 1000/1000, SFP+ LAN
  • USW-Flex-2.5G-8-PoE (196W): SFP+ to router, Cat6a to the rest
  • U7-Lite access point
  • BX1400U-FR UPS

Software

  • Firewall
  • Cloudflare DNS
  • DHCP
  • VLANs

Unraid server

Hardware

  • AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
  • Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX V2
  • 16 GiB DDR5 6000
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070
  • 2x 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO

Software

  • Unraid OS
  • Cloudflare Tunnel
  • Syncthing
  • Plex
  • Crafty 4
  • Bookstack
  • Home Assistant
  • NetBox

Proxmox server

Hardware

  • Intel Core i7-7700K
  • 16 GB DDR4 3200
  • 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD

Software

  • Proxmox
  • Various Windows and Linux testing VMs
  • PostgreSQL test database

Synology DS920+

Hardware

  • 4x 8 TB Seagate 7E10 Exos
  • 2.5G via adapter

Software

  • DSM

Desktop PC

Hardware

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 12 cores / 24 threads
  • XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black
  • 64 GB Ballistix DDR4 3600 (2x32 GB)
  • Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming, 2.5G via adapter
  • Samsung 980 PRO 500 GB + 970 EVO Plus 2 TB (M.2)

Software

  • Windows
  • Nobara Linux (planned)

Laptop

Hardware

  • Lenovo Legion 5 Pro

Software

  • Linux Mint

Cloud PC

Hardware

Software

  • Syncthing

Contact

Not looking for work, always up for a good chat about code, servers or modding.

contact@lousberg.dk Steam profile