Ben Gothard
Full Stack Cloud Engineer at Byrider
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolBen Gothard is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at Encora in Indianapolis, who blends full-stack development with a practical focus on UI/UX improvements and tooling. He contributes to open-source projects—notably enhancing the Amulet Minecraft world editor with advanced NBT editing, resource API refactors, and a complex block picker—showing a knack for domain-specific tooling and game-adjacent projects. Comfortable across Python and Node.js, he also builds and maintains self-hosted software, reflecting a preference for hands-on, owner-operator systems. His background includes software roles at DMI and a computer science degree from Rose-Hulman, and he brings a mix of production engineering discipline and hobbyist curiosity that surfaces in polished, user-focused interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
front-end-development10
bt10
python10
wxpython10
map-editor10
resource-management9
minecraft9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Amulet-Team/Amulet-Map-Editor
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
A Minecraft world editor and converter that supports all versions since Java 1.12 and Bedrock 1.7.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 82 reviews, 101 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Minecraft world editor. Their contributions included adding an NBT editor with features like tag editing and deletion. They refactored code to utilize a resource API, improving image loading and organization. Further improvements included adding a complex block picker to support extra blocks and several UI enhancements, especially to the multi-block definition view.
javaminecraftconverteramuletmap-editor
BluCodeGH/Amulet-Map-Editor
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
A new Minecraft world editor that aims to be flexible, extendable, and support most editions of Minecraft
Contributions:45 commits in 6 months
minecraft
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