Shaun Hedrick
Software Engineer at Discord
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Hedrick is a Seattle-based software engineer currently working on backend systems at Discord, with prior engineering roles at Lyft, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. He brings a rare blend of embedded‑systems experience and internet‑scale service development, moving from firmware at Qualcomm to latency‑sensitive, real‑time platforms at Lyft and Discord. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, he focuses on reliability and performance where low‑level systems meet distributed architectures. Shaun is known for pragmatic problem solving across the full stack, translating constraints from hardware into robust cloud services.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (41)
discord10
sdcc9
discord-bot9
api9
api-documentation9
8-bit8
megadrive8
680008
zx-spectrum8
gbdk8
nes-emulator8
8bit8
commodore8
nintendo8
sega-genesis8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
discord/vmaf
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.
Contributions:4 reviews, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
discord/libuv
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
asynchronouswindowsasync-awaitlinuxlibuv
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