I've been building Quests

• Part of Discords first advertising event-focused team, expanding from 1 six-engineer team to now 4

• Co-led development of the first Shop-integrated Quest. Launched a full-stack MVP in <4 weeks. Campaign for Amazon Games reached 6M+ users and 150K+ rewards, with 50% reach international.

Also viral on Twitter: https://x.com/Purilly/status/1780807216989385126

• Led integration of Discord Orbs (virtual currency) for Quests. Partnered with Payments and Shop teams over 6 months to deliver API/UI overhaul for a 200K-user public beta, with >25M Orbs paid out in first 24hrs

• Co-built the first internal content management tools for Quest launches. Led onboarding for non-technical ad ops users via training sessions and documentation. Tool is now our primary launch method, with dozens of successful campaigns

• Conducted 10+ interviews for mid and senior-level engineers across the ads org and contributed to hiring calibration discussions.

• Accessibility ambassador for the ads department, conducting UI audits and leading accessibility knowledge-sharing among engineers.

• 1st engineering hire at Stanford-originated social dating startup, raised $5M seed round in Feb 2022 led by Bain Capital Ventures. Currently 5 full-time engineers

• Designed and led development of our proprietary real-time matchmaking graph, built on Elixir, Rust, WebGPU and RabbitMQ, capable of matching 1M total users in real-time and syncing >100 updates/sec

• Solo built + launched Elixir/Postgres-backed core REST/real-time socket API for the Checkmate App, reaching 50k DAU, #15 in the App Store’s social category, and >400k requests/hr. Includes ~500 unit/integration tests

• Solo built + launched propriety social recommendation graph for Checkmate, built on Elixir and Neo4j (with custom-built Elixir driver), currently in production handling 20M unique nodes and 45M unique edges

• Built companies custom DevOps CLI in Python to run tests, build Docker artifacts, run migrations, and deploy to new/existing AWS ECS services automatically, or scaffold new services from scratch via Cloudformation

• Built + launched the company's first React-based user account portal and Python-based API to securely collect and analyze user submission data for over 200k students across 87 U.S. universities.

• Bootstrapped software consultancy, helping entrepreneurs bootstrap mobile and web application-based startups

• Built company to $6K monthly revenue within 6 months and $23K annual profit after first year

• Built and deployed 5 full-stack React/Node applications to production over a 2 year period, including clients from BioTech, Healthcare, and Real Estate industries. Hosted on GCP

• Led development team of 3 engineers and implemented weekly product performance reviews with clients, weekly story prioritization meetings, and weekly feature releases through an automated DevOps pipeline

• Launched real-estate agent matchmaking service AreYouHouseReady with 50+ agents subscribed to paid tier

• Led UI design and UX research efforts for 12-person development team in club-sanctioned app Clubfinity

• Contributed to the apps Node.js/MongoDB backend and custom UI kit in the app's React Native frontend

• Organized and led bi-weekly app usability studies with 20+ students and 5 club presidents

• Designed 30+ unique screens and prototypes, contributing to a 50% increase in development velocity