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Kyle

I live in flame graphs and tick loops — squeezing TPS out of busy Minecraft servers.

The path

Experience & education

Career

2024 — Now
Independent · Open source
tame.gg · self-directed

Leading Keila and SilkMC — squeezing parallel performance out of Paper-family and Folia-based Minecraft servers.

2023 — 2024
Performance Engineer
Game server hosting provider

Profiled and patched server forks at scale across hundreds of customer instances. Lived in async-profiler.

2020 — 2023
Java Developer
Minecraft plugin studio

Wrote high-throughput plugins and the internals nobody else wanted to touch. Learned where the JVM hurts.

Education

2019 — 2023
B.S. Software Engineering
Concurrency & runtime systems

Focused on multithreading and the JVM memory model. Thesis on regionized world ticking.

Right now

BuildingKeila
ProfilingSilkMC regions
PlayingUHC
ListeningBonobo

Stack

Java 21Foliaasync-profilerJMHRustC

Ships

Kyle — tame.gg