Jacob Richards
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Richards is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack and infrastructure systems, currently shaping financial tooling and creator payout platforms at Discord. His background spans scientific computing and production services—moving from research at Berkeley Lab and JPL to shipping consumer-scale features at Bird and freight solutions at Mothership. He codes across Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, GCP/AWS, and has led teams through architecture breaks, microservices, and platformization. Unusually, he pairs this technical breadth with a professional music career—his drumming appears on TV shows like New Amsterdam and Yellowjackets—bringing a creative, performance-driven mindset to engineering and product design. Educated in both music and applied mathematics at top institutions, he blends analytical rigor with design sensibility to tackle complex systems that serve millions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Jazz/Jazz Studies, 3.9, Jazz/Jazz Studies, 3.9 at New England Conservatory of MusicMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Jazz & Music Technology, 4.0, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Jazz & Music Technology, 4.0 at California Institute of the ArtsBachelor of Arts - BA, Music (Summa Cum Laude), 3.96, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music (Summa Cum Laude), 3.96 at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (29)
redux9
reanimated9
bottomsheet9
react8
react-native7
typescript7
chuck5
sqlalchemy5
testing5
django5
expressjs5
mongoose5
ecommerce4
midi4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
palgorhythm/website
May 2020 - Apr 2026
it's my website :D
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 11 months
palgorhythm/palgorhythm.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years
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