JDÂ Cumpson
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJD Cumpson is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems and improving developer and user experience across companies like Discord, Pinterest, and PagerDuty. He blends a mechatronics and robotics background with strong front-end and back-end skills—shipping features from real-time messaging and API proxying to data warehousing and UX optimizations. A serial debugger and protocol tinkerer, he delights in applying async, functional, and evolutionary techniques to practical problems, and actively experiments with modern stacks such as React/Redux, Elixir, and material design tooling. At PagerDuty he founded a hackday-born postmortem feature and regularly contributes to internal engineering culture; at evenings he pursues robotics, pathfinding for crypto arbitrage, and community learning from conferences like StrangeLoop and ElixirConf. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with production-grade engineering and a habit of turning weekend experiments into impactful product features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at McMaster University
French, English
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Github Skills (68)
browser9
api9
pagerduty9
testing9
api-client9
e2e9
python-client9
cryptocurrency9
cypress9
test-runner9
wait9
binance9
react-video9
testing-library9
memory-cache9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PagerDuty/pagerduty-api-python-client
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
A python client for PagerDuty's API, v2.0+
Contributions:24 PRs, 55 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
api-clientapipythonapi-wrapperpagerduty
jdcumpson/txbonjour
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 1 day
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