Raven Szewczyk
Build Engineer at IMG.LY
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRaven Szewczyk is a build engineer at IMG.LY with 13 years of hands-on experience bridging low-level systems work and practical engineering workflows. Based in Edinburgh, they combine graduate research on near-data processing with real-world build and runtime tooling to keep complex projects shipping reliably. Raven’s background includes teaching and lab support at the University of Edinburgh and an internship building OpenCL/Vulkan compute runtimes at Codeplay, reflecting deep familiarity with distributed systems and heterogeneous compute. A long-time Minecraft modder and core contributor to the GTNewHorizons/GT5-Unofficial project, they’ve tackled tricky edge cases in multiblock behavior, chunk handling, and NPE prevention—evidence of a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to low-level code.
13 years of coding experience
Graduate research, Computer Science, Graduate research, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghHigh School Diploma, Matematyka, Fizyka, Informatyka, High School Diploma, Matematyka, Fizyka, Informatyka at II Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Poznaniu
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (8)
javas10
debug10
minecraft-forge10
minecraft-fabric10
java10
apidoc9
game-development9
api9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
GTNewHorizons/GT5-Unofficial
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Decompiled and modified version of GT5.07.07
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:168 reviews, 12 commits, 57 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Raven primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the GregTech mod's core functionality. They implemented changes to improve chunk handling for GregTech machines, ensuring machines mark their containing chunks as dirty on updates, and fixed multiblock behavior. The user's commits also involved modifying the interaction of tools and other items with GregTech tile entities, specifically related to wrenching, screwdriver, and wire cutter interactions. Several commits addressed edge case scenarios to prevent NullPointerExceptions.
decompiledmodifiedgt5
GTNewHorizons/MalisisCore
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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