Gero
Software Engineer
Cleves, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarGero is a software engineer with 11 years of practical experience, based in Cleves, Germany, currently developing at Cytooxien. He brings strong back-end expertise demonstrated by significant contributions to the popular ViaVersion project, where he fixed compatibility bugs and implemented support for newer Minecraft protocol versions to enable newer clients to connect to older servers. Comfortable working deep in protocol, entity metadata and rendering edge cases, he focuses on robust interoperability and backwards-compatibility engineering. Known for debugging nuanced client–server interactions, he combines long-term open-source collaboration with production-focused delivery.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
javas10
minecraft10
debug10
protocols10
game-development10
java10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ViaVersion/ViaVersion
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Allows the connection of newer clients to older server versions for Minecraft servers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 138 commits, 96 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gero primarily contributed to the core functionality of the ViaVersion project, focused on supporting older Minecraft clients on newer servers. Their work involved fixing bugs related to client-side rendering of specific game elements like particles and implementing support for newer Minecraft versions, including support for 1.13.2-pre1 and later releases. They also made changes to item handling, block interactions, and entity metadata to ensure compatibility with the supported Minecraft versions.
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Gerrygames/ClientViaVersion
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:15 releases, 44 commits, 81 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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