Dannie Walker
Senior Software Engineer at Discord4J
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDannie Walker is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with over a decade of programming experience and seven years focused on JVM languages like Java and Kotlin. He builds modern full-stack applications, complementing backend expertise with front-end work in JavaScript and React to deliver performant user experiences. At Paylocity he contributes to production systems, and as a long-time contributor and community administrator for the widely used Discord4J library he has improved core Java APIs around voice, channels, sharding, and role/category manipulation. His toolbelt spans Go, C#, TypeScript, Rust, C, and SQL, reflecting a pragmatic polyglot approach to problem solving. Dannie combines deep open-source collaboration with enterprise delivery, and brings a history of clarifying complex library behavior into reliable, maintainable implementations.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Boise State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computer Programming at Montana State University-Bozeman
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
discord-py10
rest-api10
object-oriented-programming10
api-design10
discord-js10
java10
discord10
git9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Discord4J/Discord4J
May 2017 - Oct 2021
Discord4J is a fast, powerful, unopinionated, reactive library to enable quick and easy development of Discord bots for Java, Kotlin, and other JVM languages using the official Discord Bot API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 277 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dannie's contributions primarily focused on refining the Discord4J library's internal structures. Their work involved clarifying and correcting behavior related to voice channels, private channels, and sharding configurations. The user also added new API functionalities, such as category and role manipulation methods, and implemented various fixes and enhancements. These changes involved significant modifications to core Java classes and interfaces.
discordreactorbotdiscord-botjavadoc
TheAntiCarCollective/pedestrian
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:32 releases, 1 PR, 124 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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