Jixuan Wang
Senior-ish Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJixuan Wang is a Senior-ish Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building backend services and shipping production systems at scale. A Brown CS graduate with a 3.97 GPA, he has applied strong technical foundations across roles at Twitch and Discord, focusing on backend reliability and platform services. His early research work on the ATLAS Higgs boson search and teaching several CS courses as a TA show a blend of analytical rigor and an ability to explain complex systems. Past internships at Microsoft and TripAdvisor reflect practical experience in debugging low-level issues and building monitoring/data validation tools. Known for “doing all sorts of cool shit,” he pairs deep hands-on coding with pragmatic problem solving in high-traffic, user-facing environments. Colleagues would note both his breadth across systems and an uncommon combination of academic pedigree and production-focused impact.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.97/4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.97/4.0 at Brown University
Github Skills (26)
discord10
api-documentation10
api10
discord-bot10
twitch8
documentation8
chat6
nodejs6
python6
java6
erlang5
elixir5
javascript5
packer4
electron4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jixwanwang/jixbot
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021
Chat bot for twitch
Contributions:62 commits, 49 PRs, 173 pushes in 6 years
twitchbotchatchat-bot
jixwanwang/codenames
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Networked codenames board generator
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
networkedpythoncodenamesboard
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