Jack S is a pragmatic Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of programming experience and a track record of shipping end-to-end products using TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React, and AWS. As a co-founder at ReaLift and currently at Work Odyssey, he architects and implements authentication, database design, analytics, and mobile apps, routinely taking ownership of projects with minimal oversight. He also brings systems reliability experience from Capgemini, where he improved observability for financial services and earned the Java SE Programmer I certification. An active open-source contributor, Jack has made meaningful backend improvements to the well-known Discord4J library—adding shard recommendation logic, TTS and file-sending support, and core event fixes. Comfortable across Java, C/C++, and Python, he combines a deep Java background with modern full-stack tooling to solve both infrastructure and UI challenges. Based in Terramuggus, USA, he’s a self-starting engineer who prefers building durable, production-ready solutions from the ground up.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Phoenix
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:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Discord4J library. Their work included adding features like tracking incomplete request counts and implementing functionalities such as the recommended shard count. They also added functionality to the MessageBuilder class with the addition of sending files and added the functionality for TTS messages, as well as fixing some key event handling mechanisms within the core library.
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