AJ Palkovic
Principal Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAJ Palkovic is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building scalable full‑stack and front‑end systems at Discord, Dropbox, and Google. At Dropbox he grew the Paper engineering org from roughly 5 to over 100 committers, owned the technical strategy, and modernized the frontend stack (React 16, Jest, GraphQL) while shipping major product features like Tasks and collapsible headings. At Google he led Search Eval UIs, rewrote multiple live dashboards, built mobile rating tools and even designed a production system to run R and Python from a Java service. He blends hands‑on feature development with platform and developer‑tooling work, and has a track record of turning prototypes into shipped capabilities that measurably improve engineering velocity. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Villanova and is known for pairing pragmatic experimentation with process and hiring innovations that scale teams.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Villanova University
English
Github Skills (75)
richtext10
wysiwyg10
act10
javascript10
discord-js10
browser10
api10
rich-text10
text-editor10
typescript10
draft-js10
nodejs10
documentation10
editors10
contenteditable10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
discord/slate-package-fork
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes in 10 months
ajpalkovic/e
Feb 2010 - Feb 2011
e text editor
Contributions:36 commits in 1 year
text-editoreditorace-editor
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