Toby Strange
Support Worker at Best Life Project
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Strange is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of hands-on development experience and a background in Computer Software Engineering from Whitecliffe. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he pairs day-to-day support work with open-source contributions—most notably backend enhancements to the Iris Minecraft world-generation plugin, where he added object NBT support, fixed tile-entity bugs, and implemented loot tables. Comfortable in Java and systems that touch complex state and procedural generation, he focuses on practical solutions that make playful projects robust. His work reveals a knack for digging into legacy systems to restore accuracy (e.g., reverting and improving noise generation) while adding useful developer tooling like generator commands.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Whitecliffe - Technology & Innovation
Stackoverflow
121reputation
15kreached
8answers
3questions
Github Skills (19)
minecraft-forge10
plugin-development10
bt10
java10
plugin10
javas10
nib10
map-generation9
spigot8
bukkit8
html6
iframe6
mobile6
google-chrome-extension6
glyph-icons6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
VolmitSoftware/Iris
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
World Generation through a new Iris
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 41 commits, 26 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily focused on adding object NBT support, fixing tile entity issues, and implementing loot tables for placed objects and jigsaws within the "Iris" world generation plugin. They also contributed to the noise generator, reverting accuracy changes and re-adding a generator command. Their work involved modifications to Java code related to Minecraft plugin development, including changes to the core object and jigsaw systems.
minecraftworldgenpluginbukkitiris
StrangeOne101/BendingGUI
Aug 2015 - Jul 2024
A side plugin for ProjectKorra that adds an easy to use interface for players to use
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 8 PRs in 9 years
minecraftplayersmenupluginbending
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