Hilthon | Software Developer

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This is Hilthon, a Rustacean

39 projects

10 languages

04 in Rust

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About

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Hey, I'm Hilthon — a self-taught developer from Belgium. I build things from scratch to find out how they actually work: an HTTP server in C, a language with its own VM, a 3D software rasterizer.

Lately that means a lot of Rust, alongside Go, C#, C and TypeScript — and Python when there are tensors involved. Right now I'm studying for a BSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht University.

Away from the keyboard I'm usually playing banjo, bass or guitar — or gaming.

From scratch
Graphics
Terminal tools
Music

Based in: Belgium
Studying: Maastricht University
Writes: Rust · Go · C# · C · TS

Selected work

Most of what I build starts with “how hard can it be?” — servers, compilers, engines and the occasional model, each written to understand the thing rather than to wrap it.

#01

pawnet

A CNN that recognises animals in photos, written from scratch in pure Rust with zero dependencies. Trained on CIFAR-10.

Rust

Source

Stars: 0
Forks: 0
Last push: Nov 2026

#02

quiver

A fast, embeddable vector database written from scratch in Rust — HNSW, flat and k-d tree indexes, filtered search, a WAL, and REST and gRPC APIs.

Rust
hilthontt.github.io/quiver

Source

Stars: 0
Forks: 0
Last push: Nov 2026

#03

strata

A fast, extensible terminal file explorer written in Rust, with Lua plugins.

Rust
hilthontt.github.io/strata

Source

Stars: 0
Forks: 0
Last push: Nov 2026

#04

phantom

Matrix homeserver in Rust (a conduwuit port) with a Go terminal admin console.

Rust
hilthontt.github.io/phantom

Source

Stars: 0
Forks: 0
Last push: Nov 2026

#05

TinyDiffusion

A PyTorch implementation of a diffusion model for image generation.

Python
Graphics & ML

Source

Stars: 0
Forks: 0
Last push: Nov 2026

#06

audiaki

Capture-to-WAV recorder for Linux with a multi-track editor, live metering and a spectrum visualiser. Talks to PipeWire or ALSA.

C
Apps & tools

Source

Stars: 0
Forks: 0
Last push: Oct 2026

#07

SoftEngine

A real-time software 3D rasterizer in C# — scanline rasterization, z-buffering, frustum clipping and Flat/Gouraud shading.

C#
Graphics & ML

Source

Stars: 1
Forks: 0
Last push: Oct 2026

#08

OpenChess

A terminal chess game — online 1v1, Elo ratings, engine analysis, time controls, leaderboards and 30+ themes.

TypeScript
Apps & tools

Source

Stars: 1
Forks: 0
Last push: Nov 2026

All 39 projects

Experience

2 — 3 April 2026

Ettelbrück, Luxembourg

Software Engineer

RMS.lu · Observation placement

Wrote a driver library for a wireless M-Bus utility meter — reading packets off the wire, resetting the device and resolving which USB port it was attached to
Assembled around ten single-board computers feeding the town's camera network and public display panels
Bench-tested the field units' battery bank; none of the 15 cells held a charge, so the whole lot was scrapped
Sat in on a business and technical meeting with Zebra on industrial scanners, printers and tablets

C#
wM-Bus
Raspberry Pi
Arduino

Education

2026 — 2029

Maastricht, Netherlands

BSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Maastricht University

In progress

Three-year English-taught bachelor combining computer science, mathematics and statistics
Taught through Problem-Based Learning in small tutorial groups
Building towards machine learning, data engineering and intelligent systems