Working as a maintainer for a few learning platforms and tools in the lab for Information Technology Systems under Professor Andreas Claßen and his university employee Michel Erbach. With one of the platforms being my bachelor's thesis project.

Potentially also continuing my work in the tutoring of the university module „Fundamentals of Computer Science and Introduction to Programming“, but in an elevated role.

Working as a tutor for university modules:

• Fundamentals of Computer Science and Introduction to Programming
• Algorithms and Data Structures

Responsibilities include one-on-one assessment of weekly lab assignments, verifying students’ understanding of the material, and evaluating work that is required to qualify for exam participation.

Maintaining and contributing to the codebases of a large-scale gaming network with 200.000+ members, spanning 20 Rust and Garry's Mod servers across Europe and the US with thousands of concurrent players, featuring unique gameplay mechanics and active communities.

Responsibilites:

• Started as primary contributor and wrote the entirety of the core systems.
• Now leading a small team of developers and junior developers.
• Overseeing technical direction, feature planning, and long-term roadmap execution.
• Maintaining GitHub repositories and managing version control processes.
• Developing and maintaining custom Discord bots for automation and community integration.
• Supporting community management and infrastructure management across multiple dedicated servers.

Highlights:

• Rebuilt the community's oldest „Garry’s Mod“ project into a new custom gamemode, optimizing data and networking performance and establishing it as the leading server in its category across Europe.
• Planned, developed, and launched two full-scale projects from concept through release to a live playerbase.
• Implemented GitHub workflows with branch strategies and testing environments, modernizing the team's development practices.
• Introduced agile-inspired workflows to improve task distribution and collaboration.
• Designed and deployed integrations between game servers and community Discord servers, enabling automation and streamlined interaction.
• Migrated multiple datasets and associated game code to new dedicated servers, ensuring scalability and improved performance.

This role has been giving me the opportunity to apply many of the concepts from my computer science degree in a real-world setting — within the demanding environment of live multiplayer systems serving large user bases. This has allowed me to experiment, iterate and deepen my practical understanding, significantly shaping my growth into a software engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Lua scripts for Garry's Mod, fixing bugs and contributing new gameplay features.
• Assisted in the preparation and deployment of Rust servers ahead of official updates by ensuring custom mods compiled and functioned correctly.
• Supported the release of Garry's Mod projects through ongoing testing, debugging, and iteration.
• Gained hands-on experience with C# and Lua in the context of real-time multiplayer systems.
• Collaborated with other developers and community members to deliver stable gameplay experiences.