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