Josh Stratton
Engineering Manager at Discord
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Stratton is an engineering manager with 17 years of software experience, currently leading teams at Discord and based in Issaquah, Washington. He brings deep technical roots in GPGPU computing, volume rendering, and both web and desktop application development, honed earlier at DreamWorks Animation and in academic research roles. Known for setting clear direction, enforcing team culture, and driving projects from inception to delivery, he excels at organizing large codebases and keeping teams moving on broad feature scopes. Josh pairs hands-on debugging, tooling and unit testing expertise with hiring and mentoring chops, making him effective at scaling both code and people. His background in research and animation pipelines gives him a rare blend of academic rigor and production-grade engineering sensibility.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleThe University of Utah
English, Portuguese, German
Stackoverflow
2,148reputation
237kreached
41answers
87questions
Github Skills (134)
brightscript10
simulator10
visual-studio10
game-development10
data-driven10
game-engine10
editor10
rust10
roku10
steam10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
strattonbrazil/brs
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
An interpreter for the BrightScript language that runs on non-Roku platforms.
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
code-golfplatformsbrightscriptrokuruns
strattonbrazil/busyimg
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:12 reviews, 143 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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