Joshua Perline
Engineering Manager at Discord
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Perline is an engineering manager and former senior software engineer who blends product-focused safety and anti-abuse expertise with a creative background in music, film, and writing. Based in Los Angeles, he currently leads Safety Experience engineering at Discord after driving anti-abuse efforts at Twitter and building creator tools and personalization systems at Pandora. A co-founder and CTO on earlier startups and now an independent filmmaker through Quiet Hours, he brings entrepreneurial grit and hands-on technical leadership to cross-functional teams. His training spans CS at UC Berkeley, jazz bass performance, and screenwriting, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and artistic sensibility that informs pragmatic, human-centered solutions. Despite only a few years in titled leadership, he has repeatedly moved between individual contributor and founder roles, showing a knack for shipping complex systems while mentoring others.
1 year of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBass Performance, Bass Performance at California Jazz ConservatoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
discord-bot10
discord10
api9
api-documentation9
documentation7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
discord/discord-api-docs
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Official Discord API Documentation
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
apidiscordmemescalediscord-botapi-documentation
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