Nicholas Stonecipher
Linux Systems Administrator
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Stonecipher is a Linux Systems Administrator with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web hosting environments, primarily using a customized LEMP stack. Based in Athens-Clarke County, GA, he supports production infrastructure at University of Georgia Auxiliary Services while bringing a background in full-stack web development, embedded electronics, and media design. He contributes to open-source projects such as a multithreaded Minecraft server where he implemented backend features in Rust, expanded database functionality, and added game-centric systems like plot management and chat integration. Comfortable across Kotlin, Python, Java, Rust and traditional web languages, he blends systems administration with backend engineering to solve practical scalability and reliability problems. Notably, his career path spans student IT roles to a permanent sysadmin position, reflecting a steady progression from hands-on technical work to operational ownership.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science, Senior, Computer Science, Computer Science, Senior at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and SciencesEngineering, Engineering at University of North Georgia
Github Skills (13)
minecraft10
server-side-scripting10
red10
rust10
redis10
server10
redash10
server-side10
toml9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
configuration-management9
command-line-tool9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MCHPR/MCHPRS
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
A multithreaded Minecraft server built for redstone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas focused on implementing core backend functionality for the Minecraft server, primarily using Rust. Their contributions include generating and fixing configuration files, expanding the database functionality, and implementing plot management commands. The user also worked on handling player gamemode updates and integrated chat functionality within the server. Furthermore, they introduced and refined crucial server features.
minecraftredstonerustmcminecraft-server
OpenRedstoneEngineers/ChattORE
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
ORE's Custom Chat System
Contributions:22 reviews, 25 PRs, 92 pushes in 4 years 8 months
javaminecraft
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