AJ 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
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AJ Palkovic - Principal Software Engineer at Discord