Designed and implemented systems to address Discord application performance. Conceptualized and implemented automated smoke tests, implemented performance monitoring strategies, verified audio/visual (AV) stack, and developed visualizer for real time AV metrics. Acted as staff engineer, identifying and pursuing issues to full resolution across divisions.

• Researched and led development on hook-free game overlay which dramatically increased performance and compatibility, using an indepth knowledge of Windows API.

• Accelerated development and identified numerous existing bugs by converting large portion of existing codebase to TypeScript.

• Enabled earlier detection of crashes and performance regressions by creating and logging actionable metrics throughout the software stack.

• Played key role in Discord’s 2024 efforts by conceptualizing and authoring monitoring system to gather user performance data.

• Saved $200K in annual bandwidth costs by pinpointing caching and unused data issue.

Implemented remote mobile device access and automated testing, reverse-engineering for interoperability of undocumented protocols and systems. Integrated with and ultimate rebuilt Appium to create web-based remote mobile device access tool for on-site device cloud.

• Rolled out Appium mobile device automation testing support. Implemented data gathering, storage, and analysis functions for customer analytics and device vitals.

• Overhauled entire code base on multiple occasions, working independently to leverage unique ability to store and adjust mental model over series of strategic changes.

• Enabled iOS/Android interoperability by reverse-engineering binary file formats and protocols.

• Invented new method of real-time web audio support.