Phil Lopez
Leader of a builder civilization spanning shipped games, public websites, AI experiments, and product-minded engineering.
Phil Lopez is a builder who likes turning side ideas into real internet artifacts: websites, AI products, portfolio frameworks, and games that people can actually play. Outside IBM, a lot of the energy goes into public-world projects like Robot Future, PopCurrent, SlopSwapper, and Project Empire, plus long-running Unreal Engine work such as Buster's TD and LocalTalker. That mix of product instinct, front-end execution, storytelling, and systems thinking is the center of the profile. IBM is still an important part of the arc, but the broader story is about shipping things under his own banner, making them public, and building a body of work that spans code, design, writing, and game development.
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 as part of a broader game-development arc.
- Built projects that span websites, media, AI tooling, satire, and game systems rather than staying inside one lane.
- Graduated from RIT with a BS/MS in Computer Science.
- Also 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.