Lew Blood
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorLew Blood is a senior software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and developer tools, currently shipping features at Discord. Comfortable across the full stack, he specializes in React and Next.js while also maintaining strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, shell scripting, and SQL, and has explored Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, and Swift. He has led engineering teams and CI/CD efforts as Director of Engineering at HeyMint and drove internal tooling and major refactors at Lark Health, combining shipping velocity with architecture quality. An active open-source maintainer since his teens, Lew co-created Gameboi, a Discord chatbot that reached hundreds of thousands of users and won Hack Week recognition—evidence of his knack for playful, widely adopted side projects. Based in Toledo and known online as foxfire, he brings a tinkerer’s mindset (ask about his shell configs and Arch setup) and a track record of turning experiments into production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
bundler10
transpiler10
jsx10
discord-js10
browser10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
nodejs10
endpoint10
vercel10
rollupjs10
oauth10
bun10
react-framework10
paper10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rayzr522/calculator-repl
Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
rayzr522/WorldEditWatcher
Jun 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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