Willem Leitso
Software Engineer at University of British Columbia
Sparwood, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWillem Leitso is a software engineer and mining engineering student at UBC with nine years of hands-on experience building applications, libraries, and Linux server tooling. He combines domain interest in automated mining systems with strong software craftsmanship in Rust, Java, and Kotlin, and has shipped both full-stack React tooling and backend utilities. An active open-source contributor and project maintainer on GitHub, he has implemented practical modules such as a coordinate logger and ESP features for client projects, demonstrating attention to tooling and debugging detail. His industry experience ranges from mine planning co-op work to junior engineering roles and system administration for educational institutions, giving him a pragmatic perspective on production constraints. Curious and self-directed, Willem enjoys learning new technologies and translating that curiosity into maintainable, deployable software.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, ENGINEERING, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, ENGINEERING at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
javas10
minecraft-forge10
minecraft-fabric10
drupal-module10
java10
package-development10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kami-blue/client
Apr 2020 - May 2020
ARCHIVED - KAMI Blue: a continuation of 1.12.2 KAMI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 26 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Willem primarily contributed to the development of a coordinate logger module within a Minecraft client. Their work involved creating the module, defining settings, and implementing functionality to write player coordinates to a file. They also made improvements to the logging utility class and addressed bugs, including function renames and semicolon errors. Furthermore, they added a search/block ESP module.
minecraftbluecontinuationkamijava
willemml/dotfiles.nix
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
My dotfiles, this time with nix.
Contributions:133 commits, 1 PR, 226 pushes in 3 months
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