Jacob Tong
Project Maintainer And Admin at Space Station 14
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Tong is a versatile software engineer and long-time open-source maintainer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with 11 years of experience and over four focused on game development. As a project maintainer and admin for Space Station 14, he reviews code from 80+ contributors, reimplemented flexible input handling, and helps run a multiplayer game that supports 200+ players and 50,000+ playtest registrations. His contributions span full-stack game systems and engine work—improving UI controls, keybind configuration, and debug tooling in the RobustToolbox engine. He pairs community leadership and moderation with hands-on engineering, mentoring new contributors and teaching people to ship code. Jacob also brings practical production QA and automation experience from cloud device management, scripting, and CI work at Raindrops.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at 42 Silicon Valley
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
space-wizards/RobustToolbox
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Robust multiplayer game engine, used by Space Station 14
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 78 commits, 115 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on refactoring and improving the input system, including keybind management and UI interaction. They implemented new features like a debug console hotkey and support for modifier keys in keybind configurations. Additionally, the user worked on enhancing UI elements such as LineEdit and SpinBox, adding features like a text filter and implementing a history feature for the LineEdit control used in the DebugConsole.
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space-wizards/space-station-14
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:816 reviews, 6 commits, 433 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the Space Station 14 project by implementing UI elements for storage items within the inventory. Their work involved modifications to multiple files, including those related to HumanInventoryInterfaceController, InventoryButton, and ServerStorageComponent. The user also fixed bugs related to the user interface, specifically in the HandsGui.
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