Daniel Vidmar
Retail Manager at Walmart
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Vidmar is a developer and long-time Minecraft ecosystem maintainer who pairs 11 years of software experience with hands-on retail leadership as a Retail Manager at Walmart. Since 2012 he has led and modernized The New Economy plugin and contributed backend improvements to notable community projects like Towny and TrueCraft, reflecting a focus on modular, maintainable Java code for game mechanics and economy systems. He also builds PHP tooling—WebCore and PHPWAW—and works across Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, C#, and various databases, with current curiosity in Rust and Lua. Comfortable with Docker and NGINX deployments, he balances production-grade server management with community-focused projects and is now relaunching a Minecraft server that revisits his early hosting roots.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Southern New Hampshire University
Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
javas10
minecraft10
minecraft-forge10
game-development10
csharp10
bukkit10
spigot10
java10
plugin10
dotnet-core10
object-oriented-programming9
refactoring8
refactor8
api-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ddevault/TrueCraft
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Minecraft for hipsters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 12 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on implementing core game mechanics within the TrueCraft project. Their contributions included adding new block properties for various Minecraft blocks like pistons, mushrooms, and redstone components. They also refactored and consolidated the stair blocks into a single class, reflecting a focus on modularity and efficient code organization. Furthermore, the user was involved in adding items and improving their functionalities within the game.
javaspigotminecrafthipsters
TownyAdvanced/Towny
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Towny Advanced Minecraft plugin for Bukkit/Spigot.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 25 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on enhancing the Towny Advanced Minecraft plugin's economy and game mechanics. Their contributions included adding support for the "Reserve" economy plugin, integrating new chat features via "TheNewChat", and implementing changes to prevent exploitation of game mechanics, like animal luring. They also made minor code improvements, such as replacing comparisons with .equals and refactoring methods for efficiency.
minecrafttownybukkit-pluginbukkitplugin
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