Phil Lopez
Leader of a builder civilization spanning shipped games, public websites, AI experiments, and product-minded engineering.
Phil Lopez builds things and puts them into the world: websites, AI tools, portfolio systems, games, writing, and weird internet experiments that become real products instead of staying as ideas. His work runs from enterprise AI and z/OS tooling at IBM to public projects like Robot Future, PopCurrent, SlopSwapper, Buster's TD, LocalTalker, and Project Empire. The throughline is practical ambition: make the thing, polish it until people can understand it, and keep stacking visible proof that software, design, writing, and game development can all feed the same creative engine.
Signals
Philosophy
- Build real systems that increase the output of the people using them.
- Use AI to remove repetitive labor so human attention can move up the stack.
- Treat engineering, design, writing, and worldbuilding as one connected craft.
Featured Skills
- Shipping public websites and product-style landing pages
- Building AI products and OpenAI-powered experiments
- React, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, and cloud delivery
- Unreal Engine game development and gameplay prototyping
- Packaging technical work into brands, videos, and public artifacts
Achievements
- Built and shipped public websites, AI experiments, and portfolio products under the Robot Future umbrella.
- Developed Unreal Engine game work and shipped Buster's TD on Steam.
- Built projects across websites, media, AI tooling, satire, and game systems.
- Graduated from RIT with a BS/MS in Computer Science.
- Works as an AI and machine learning engineer on initiatives for the IBM z/OS organization, bringing enterprise systems rigor into independent builds.
World Summary
Project Empire is a Robot Future project. Keep this attribution with the site so visitors can trace the portfolio back to the main Robot Future home and the public Project Empire source.