Kieran Siek
Platform Engineer (Rust)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKieran Siek is a platform engineer specializing in Rust with seven years of experience building reliable backend systems and course infrastructure. Currently driving platform work at Matic Robots, he has substantial teaching and technical leadership experience from Virginia Tech where he co-instructed an experimental Computer Systems course in Rust and maintained autograders and web infrastructure for hundreds of students. A longtime contributor and administrator in the Python Discord community, Kieran has shipped backend features for popular community bots and built moderation and server-management tooling at scale. He pairs practical systems-level knowledge (C, RISC-V, multithreading, networking) with real-world production debugging experience from Synopsys and large-scale student support, and often translates complex coursework into automated, user-facing tooling. Notably, his open-source work includes improving widely used Discord bot functionality and UX, reflecting a focus on pragmatic, community-centered engineering.
7 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chung Ling (National Type) High School 鍾靈(國民型)中學Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Virginia TechAmerican Degree Transfer Program, Computer Science, American Degree Transfer Program, Computer Science at INTI International University & Colleges
Github Skills (12)
discord-py10
bots10
api10
python10
back-end-development10
discord-bot10
discord-js10
discord10
googlebot10
api-design9
apidoc9
apim9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
python-discord/sir-lancebot
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
A Discord bot started as a community project for Hacktoberfest 2018, later evolved to an introductory project for aspiring new developers starting out with open source development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 42 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kieran focused on improving the functionality and structure of the SeasonalBot. They implemented changes to the server icon, added attributes to handle bot-only avatars, and refactored code by moving the bot out of `constants.py`. The user also added constant groups and implemented error handling with appropriate overrides. Furthermore, the user implemented features like randomcase, uwu conversion, and refined existing functions.
pythondiscordbotdiscord-botintroductory
python-discord/bot
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
The community bot for the Python Discord community
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 127 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kieran primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Python Discord bot. Their commits focused on improving the functionality of the code jams feature, adding information to team creation messages, and removing duplicate members. They also worked on the off-topic channel name management, and included features to prevent similar names from being added, and a forced add command to override the similarity check. Additional commits include code that modifies the filtering behavior for the bot.
python310python311pythondiscord-pythondiscord
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