Jake Ben-Tovim
Game Developer
Escondido, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJake Ben-Tovim is a game developer with 10 years of hands-on experience building gameplay systems, tooling, and server-side integrations across Unity, Unreal, C++, C#, and TypeScript/Node.js. Based in Escondido, CA, he combines gameplay programming and design sensibilities with practical operations as a Minecraft server administrator, giving him a strong sense of live-service reliability and player-driven iteration. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core backend functionality and documentation for the widely used Skript Spigot plugin, focusing on compatibility and intuitive defaults. Comfortable across web and native stacks, Jake thrives on turning design ideas into robust, playable experiences and often bridges gaps between modding communities and production-grade code.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
javas10
minecraft10
bukkit10
java10
scripting-language9
gradle8
gradlew8
spigot7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SkriptLang/Skript
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
Skript is a Spigot plugin which allows server admins to customize their server easily, but without the hassle of programming a plugin or asking/paying someone to program a plugin for them.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the Skript plugin's backend functionality by modifying Java code. Their work involved fixing issues, such as adjusting sound defaults, and integrating changes from the master branch. They also updated the documentation for various Bukkit classes and made changes related to block placement. These modifications suggest a focus on improving the plugin's core features and compatibility.
minecraftskriptgradlebukkit-pluginbukkit
SkriptLang/skript-aliases
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
Aliases for Skript
Contributions:8 reviews, 175 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years
minecraftskriptaliasesskript-pluginplugin
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