vcokltfre
Software Engineer at malsense
Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSoftware Engineer with 8 years of experience based in Wales, UK, specializing in back-end Python development and anti-abuse systems. Active in open sourceācontributed to the widely used nextcord Discord API wrapper (improving type safety and application command support) and enhanced community-oriented bots like Sir Lancebotādemonstrating both API design and practical bot feature work. Currently focused on anti-abuse engineering at Malsense while also serving as a community manager for GTAO and Nextcord Discord communities, blending technical delivery with community stewardship. Comfortable maintaining libraries (version and API bumps) and implementing robust error handling and command frameworks, indicating attention to long-term project health and developer experience. Notably, their contributions bridge low-level type fixes and higher-level command infrastructures, a mix that improves both reliability and user-facing functionality.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
bots10
python10
discord-bot10
discord10
googlebot10
command-line9
command-prompt9
type-checking9
typehinting9
api8
error-handling7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
python-discord/sir-lancebot
Apr 2021 - May 2021
A Discord bot started as a community project for Hacktoberfest 2018, later evolved to an introductory project for aspiring new developers starting out with open source development.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:vcokltfre primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Sir Lancebot Discord bot, written in Python. Their contributions involve fixing issues within the 8bitify feature, including using API fetches and correct user retrieval. They added a timed command with aliases for executing other commands and corrected its behavior, error handling, and help message output. Furthermore, they expanded the bot's capabilities by implementing a ping command and features for the easter module.
pythondiscordbotdiscord-botintroductory
nextcord/nextcord
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
A Python wrapper for the Discord API forked from discord.py
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 50 reviews, 6 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:vcokltfre primarily contributed to the `nextcord` library, which is a Python wrapper for the Discord API. Their work focused on improving type safety, as seen in the corrections to channel event types. They also added support for application commands, including the necessary infrastructure for command and option handling. Further contributions included bumping the version number and updating the API version, demonstrating familiarity with project maintenance tasks.
discord-apiapipythonapi-wrapperdiscord
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