Ivan Pekov

Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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Ivan Pekov is a Java backend engineer from Plovdiv, Bulgaria with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable server-side systems and working extensively on Linux, SQL databases, and data serialization formats like YAML and JSON. He specializes in Netty and Spring Boot ecosystems and uses Maven and Gradle to deliver production-grade Java applications, including game-related projects and Minecraft server tooling. As a contributor to the widely used BungeeCord proxy, he improved connection handling, keep-alive reliability, and plugin-manager protections—demonstrating attention to resilient networking and hostile third-party interactions. His background in electronics gives him a pragmatic systems-thinking approach, and he brings a knack for tightening low-level reliability while keeping integrations and command interfaces clean.

8 years of coding experience

Primary Education, Primary Education at PS Stoyan Mihaylovski

Electronics technician, Electronics technician at PGEE Plovdiv

Bulgarian, English

Github Skills (10)

javas10

bungeecord10

networking10

java10

performance-optimization9

api8

error-handling8

apidoc8

server-administration7

github5

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptJavaShellC++CJavaScriptPHPHTML

Github contributions (5)

SpigotMC/BungeeCord

Aug 2019 - Jul 2022

BungeeCord, the 6th in a generation of server portal suites. Efficiently proxies and maintains connections and transport between multiple Minecraft servers.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:25 reviews, 6 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 11 months

Contributions summary:Ivan contributed to the BungeeCord project by adding missing translations for module commands, modifying server and user connection handling, and protecting the plugin manager from third-party modifications. They also addressed issues in legacy ping handling and improved the reliability of server keep-alive mechanisms by peeking the keepalive queue and implementing new netty leak detection flags. The user primarily focused on backend functionality, including command implementations and server connection management within this proxy server suite.

minecraftplayersbungeecordsuitesbukkit

MrIvanPlays/api.mrivanplays.com

Oct 2019 - Dec 2022

Source of api.mrivanplays.com

Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months

api

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