Trent Hensler
Co-Founder at Makeshift
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Hensler is a founder and product-engineering leader with 13 years building and commercializing user-generated content ecosystems across Minecraft, Fortnite, and Roblox. He brokered industry-first UGC brand deals (Kellogg’s, 2016; Samsung in Fortnite, 2019), helped grow the second-largest Minecraft server, and has tens of millions of downloads of his widely used Minecraft plugins like EssentialsX. As Co-Founder of Makeshift Partners he connects major brands and IPs—Netflix, LEGO, L'Oréal, Atlantic Records—and creators to deliver native in-game experiences and M&A transactions. His background spans hands-on backend development (maintaining and extending EssentialsX) to product and studio leadership roles at Super League Gaming and Voldex, giving him rare fluency across engineering, product, and commercial strategy. Based in Minneapolis, he blends technical depth with a proven track record of turning creator ecosystems into branded, revenue-generating platforms.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
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Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
javas10
plug10
bukkit10
essentials10
ess10
spigot10
java10
plugin10
command-line10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EssentialsX/Essentials
Apr 2015 - Apr 2020
The modern Essentials suite for Spigot and Paper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 61 PRs, 1788 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Trent primarily contributed to the EssentialsX plugin for Minecraft servers, implementing new features and refactoring existing code. Their work included adding enchantments, mobs, and commands related to game mechanics and user experience. They also addressed bugs and updated the plugin to support newer Minecraft versions, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and expanding the plugin's functionality.
spigotessentialminecraftminecraft-serverminecraft-plugin
drtshock/Potato
Nov 2013 - Mar 2022
If you fork this then you can say you forked a potato.
Contributions:44 commits, 40 PRs, 31 pushes in 8 years 5 months
saypotato
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