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I'm ReckerXF

Backend Software Developer & Systems Administrator

About Me

My name is Michael and I am a self-taught backend software developer and infrastructure architect. Over the years, I have spent my free time learning new coding languages and technologies, learning everything from object oriented programming (C#) to teaching myself how to manage and operate VMWare ESXi hypervisors. I am a knowledge-seeker at heart, especially when it comes to tech stacks, and will gladly take on projects meant to challenge me. I have aspirations to gain industry-level certifications in the future including but not limited to CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Linux+.

C# Typescript Javascript Node.js Lua MySQL redis Windows Servers Linux Servers VMWare ESXi Microsoft Azure Railway Active Directory

Experience

Senior Director

Duality Breach

March 2025 to July 2025

Created numerous Lua-based addons for a Garry's Mod Breach gamemode.
Obtained exposure to derma, creating a completely from-scratch UI for one project.
Managed a Discord of several hundred people.

Owner

BeyondRP

Sept. 2022 - February 2024

Owned, developed, and managed a FiveM community.
Created C#-based server resources, as well as typescript-based Discord bots.
Managed system security through SSH keys and firewalls.
Creation of system backup policies, and Nginx/PHP-FPM blocks for the community website.
Led a Staff Team of 20-30 people and a Development Team of about 5 people.

Senior Programmer

DOJRP

Aug. 2021 - Sept. 2022

Developed a highly-scalable typescript and redis-based queuing bot for TS3 users to queue into a channel when it's full.
Conducted quality assurance testing with members of the Staff Team through organized closed playtests.
Obtained exposure to OOP (C#) and began learning the language.
Created numerous C# resources for DOJRP's FiveM Servers

Community Director

Hydra Community

Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2019

Installed and maintained two bare metal machines running a total of six VMware ESXi hypervisors, employing network security procedures and automated backups.
Conducted full-scale migrations to newer systems during upgrades, including the re-deployment of security and backup policies.
Provided top-level oversight to a staff team of ~80 users.
Managed many servers for the games SCP:SL and Garry's Mod, with hundreds of concurrent users.
Operated a Discord server which had an active user count of ~3,000 members.
Generated over $5,000 annually in playerbase donations revenue.

Systems Administrator & Steam Platform Manager

Northwood Studios

Mar. 2018 - April 2019

Responsible for site reliability, and deployment of Nginx servers.
Managed system access including SSH keys, and assisted with integration of load balancing into Nginx site blocks.
Assisted Lead Systems Administrator with renewal of SSL certs, and installation of new systems.
Oversaw the Steam Community Hub for SCP:SL (Steamworks Developer Access), managing a moderator team of 4 people, and answering questions on the Steam forums.

Projects

IX - SCPRP

Fork of the Helix HL2RP schema for a private project, seeing drastic revisions and creation of unique plugins for the purpose of SCPRP. Plugins include rDepartments which is adds joinable departments with a full fledged ranking structure and permissions, rScrambles which adds working scramble goggles for SCP-096, and more.

Garry's ModGLuaMySQLNetstream

ARC9 Attachments System

Garry's Mod Lua addon that is designed to provide a store-like menu and options to buy/sell attachments for the weapons framework ARC9. First menu made in Derma.

Garry's ModGLuaDerma

TS3Verify

TS3Verify was a private Teamspeak-3 bot that forced new users to sign in through Steam to access the Teamspeak, effectively limiting ban evaders.

Teamspeak 3TypescriptMySQLAPIOpenID

Flux

Flux is a personal project, an 'All-in-One' discord bot that has an assortment of features ranging from moderation to utility. Inspired by the late Discord bot, Rowboat. As of late, this project is on hold.

Discord.NETredisMySQL

DiscordSync

FiveM C# resource that focuses on permissions integration, synchronizing roles on Discord with permissions in-game.

FiveMC#JSONAPI

InvisionSync

FiveM C# resource that focuses on permissions integration, synchronizing permissions in-game with forum usergroups on the forum software Invision Powerboard.

FiveMC#JSONAPI

PingStrike

FiveM C# resource that assigns players 'strikes' on high ping, then kicking them after a certain amount of strikes. This was made prior to the deprecation of the session host system with OneSync.

FiveMC#

TS3 Queue Bot

Teamspeak 3 Bot that oversaw hundreds of concurrent users in it's usage. Designed to queue users to join a full channel, with options for staff to prioritize certain players or remove users from the queue.

Teamspeak 3Typescriptredis

HAM (Hydra Administration Menu)

Simple Bash-based script used to manage multiple servers on dedicated machines through tmux, and also had feaures such as updating the servers through Steam.

BashSteam