Eric Lee
Software Engineer at Discord
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Lee is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building customer-facing products and core platform features at companies like Discord, Stripe, Hulu, and Best Buy. He blends front-end finesse and full-stack sensibility—shipping polished UI/UX improvements, accessibility enhancements, dark mode support, and robust real-time systems that have served millions of users. At Stripe he worked on Connect embedded components for platform accounts, and at Discord he contributes to core product engineering while remaining active in TypeScript-focused open-source work such as UI and accessibility improvements in the Typehero community. Known for leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers, he also brings a background in aerospace engineering that informs his systems-minded approach to scalable, reliable product design.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics at University of MinnesotaHigh School, High School at River Falls High School
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
e2e9
testing9
e2e-test9
ui-design9
e2e-testing9
accessibility8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
typehero/typehero
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Connect, collaborate, and grow with a community of TypeScript developers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric focused on implementing and improving the user interface and user experience within the `typehero/typehero` repository. Their contributions included deep linking to paginated replies, consolidating button styles, and adding in-challenge track overview. They also worked on accessibility improvements such as adding `sr-only` roles and improving comment E2E tests. Furthermore, they added dark mode styles to button variants and fixed profile page aspects.
nextjsprismareacttypescript
ayrock-dev/dst-sharpenable-items
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
Sharpenable Items mod for Don't Starve Together
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
modminecraft
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