Simon Rigby
Senior Back End Developer at Acorn Group
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Rigby is a Senior Back End Developer with 15 years of professional experience, currently based in Warrington and leading backend efforts at Acorn Group after a long tenure at Capgemini Engineering. He brings deep systems-level engineering skills evidenced by substantive contributions to the widely used Bukkit Minecraft API and the Multiverse multi-world plugin, where he worked on core logic, event handling and world management features. With a strong academic foundation including a PhD in Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Liverpool, he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic software delivery. Comfortable in large enterprise environments and open-source ecosystems alike, he has a track record of shipping reliable, extensible backend features and improving developer-facing APIs. Notably, his work on per-world settings, portal handling and player events shows a knack for solving domain-specific problems that intersect performance, configuration and user experience.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of Liverpool
Github Skills (9)
javas10
minecraft10
plug10
event-handling10
bukkit10
api-design10
java10
plugin10
map-generation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Multiverse/Multiverse-Core
Feb 2011 - Oct 2015
The original Bukkit Multi-World Plugin!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 9 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the core logic of the Bukkit multi-world plugin. Their initial commits focused on setting up basic functionalities, including command handling and testing the integration with Eclipse and Git. Later commits demonstrate additions to the MVWorld class and other core plugin files. Further contributions seem to involve configuration and event handling, and modifications to existing files, indicating a focus on core plugin functionalities.
bukkitmultiversebukkit-pluginjavaworld-manager
Bukkit/Bukkit
Apr 2011 - Sep 2011
The Minecraft Mod API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the Bukkit API by implementing new features and modifying existing functionalities. They added methods to retrieve world seeds, support per-world PVP settings, and implemented events for world unloading. The user also integrated customizable portal travel agents, updated player portal events, and included features like world UID and the ability to keep spawn areas loaded. Finally, they implemented a player toggle sprint event and related APIs, along with customization for death messages.
minecraft
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