Glare
Student
Summary
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RockstarGlare is a back-end-focused software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience contributing to high-profile open-source Minecraft server projects. Known for maintaining and modernizing plugins like PlaceholderAPI (used in over a million downloads) and EssentialsX, they specialize in compatibility updates across Minecraft versions, NMS adjustments, and robust backend features such as MySQL connection pooling with HikariCP. Their work spans bug fixes, new gameplay features, configuration improvements, and integrations (initial Adventure integration and cloud expansion support), showing a pragmatic blend of performance, stability, and feature delivery. Comfortable navigating legacy codebases, they have a knack for shipping practical tooling that keeps large community projects running smoothly. An avid coder who describes themselves simply as “a student who loves to program,” they bring deep domain knowledge of Spigot/Paper plugin internals and a proven track record of impactful contributions.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
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minecraft-forge10
bukkit10
ess10
mysql10
spigot10
plugin-development10
plug10
essentials10
java10
plugin10
javas10
command-line-interface9
permission9
command-line9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
PlaceholderAPI/PlaceholderAPI
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
The best and simplest way to add placeholders to your server! - 1M+ Downloads - 2.5k+ Placeholders
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 16 reviews, 26 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Glare primarily contributed to updating and expanding the codebase of the PlaceholderAPI plugin. Their work involved adapting the plugin to support newer Minecraft versions (1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.17, 1.18), including necessary NMS (Netty Minecraft Server) changes for compatibility. They also implemented features like Java version information for debugging and made modifications to the /papi dump command. Furthermore, they made initial attempts to integrate Adventure and added support for cloud expansions.
simplestminecraftplaceholders
EssentialsX/Essentials
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
The modern Essentials suite for Spigot and Paper.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 14 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Glare primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the EssentialsX plugin, focusing on bug fixes and new feature implementations. They added functionality for spectator gamemode signs, teleportation messages, and permission checks for various commands like `/tpacancel` and `/hat`. The user also worked on code that fixed a dupe bug and added the functionality to remove effects on heal. The user has further demonstrated knowledge of the plugin's settings by implementing a config option for `/home`.
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