Top expert inMinecraft Development and Server Management
Javid Pack is a software engineer with 12 years of experience and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, where his thesis applied machine learning to accelerate GPU-based fluid simulations. He has a strong research and teaching background from BYU’s Advanced 3D Graphics Lab and multiple TA roles, and has practical industry experience from internships building iOS sync clients and automated testing suites. Javid contributes to open-source game tooling as a back-end developer on the widely used tModLoader project, fixing core bugs and adding features that helped prepare releases. Comfortable across systems, graphics, and networking stacks, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering and performance-minded optimizations. Based in Provo, Utah, he is actively exploring opportunities to bring his GPU, ML, and systems expertise to production software.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
A mod to make and play Terraria mods. Supports Terraria 1.4 (and earlier) installations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:49 releases, 113 reviews, 1674 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Javid primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing features related to the game menu and resource management. They addressed an issue in the game menu, relaxed resource unloading code, and updated the game's version number for release. Additionally, they added new functionalities like an example projectile, a custom class as a key in a Dictionary. Their changes involved modifications in the core code files and were vital for preparing the game for release.
Contributions:4 releases, 6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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