Hi, I’m Jens, I’m 16 years old and I’m from The Netherlands. I’ve been an infrastructure engineer here at CubeCraft Games for a few weeks. I thought this would be the right time to make an introduction thread to all who’d like to know me. I have quite a lot reading material for you, so take your time :).
My history with CubeCraft
Ever since I bought Minecraft Java (~2013), I’ve played on CubeCraft. I’m not at a very high level (yet), but that’s mainly because I die very often :dontbullyme:. I think CubeCraft is a nice place to start my (kind of) professional career because it’s a family-friendly server with a nice community.
You may also see that my CubeCraft forums account is from 2017. That’s the time I thought it was a good idea to apply for helper (which it wasn’t). You may see some very stupid suggestions on my account.
My history
My youth has been quite a rough ride, so I’ll keep it brief. Ever since I went to middle school (11-12 years old) I’ve been interested in technology, specifically technology as in software and sometimes games. In my first year, I dropped out of school in the middle of the year. Next year I tried again but failed again. It may seem a very stupid story, but it shaped me the way I am (and my interests).
This way, I had loads of time. At first, I started experimenting with creating my own Minecraft servers and downloading and configuring Bukkit/Spigot plugins. This went pretty well, at least, so I thought (I was 11 lol). My skills evolved to creating plugins with Script (a sort of layer above Java to create Spigot plugins). This was really cool for me; I could finally code my own games! I started creating my own tutorials on how to code (debatable) my own plugins with Skript. Believe me, it was really cool seeing other kids my age start coding and learning from me.
This was also the time I was starting to go to school again. I developed as a person, not only programming skills :P. I started programming Python and eventually Java for Minecraft.
Fastforward a bit, I am an infrastructure engineer at CubeCraft!
If you somehow see me as someone you want to become: please don’t. There are far better ways to start coding and get a job than not going to school :).
What do at CubeCraft right now
As I said, I got hired as an infrastructure engineer a few weeks ago. I can’t tell you a lot about current operations, but I can (kind of) tell you what infrastructure at CubeCraft is. Infrastructure is about the systems on the backend of CubeCraft. For example, the infrastructure team manages the servers and Minecraft server instances on them. I’m still quite new, so please don’t expect me to know everything :)
Other things I do
Apart from CubeCraft, I also have some other things I do in life. Firstly, I still go to school. I am in the 4th grade of HAVO (Dutch people will know what I mean). I also play sports and like to ride my scooter and do tricks with it (stuntstep). I also do some voluntary work for the coderdojo in my town. Coderdojo is an organization with many (voluntary) locations at which you can learn how to code.
There’s much to say about my online life. I have many “friends” on Discord (mostly Dutch) with which I like to talk in one of my 100 joined guilds (ouch). We mostly talk about technology though :P
This is my introduction so far. Let me know if you want me to add anything :)
. Actually, E&M with Physics and Geography. It may not have been the best choice though :P
