Mack Straight
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Discord
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarMack Straight is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 21 years of experience designing and shipping low-latency audio, streaming, and remote device solutions across startups and major platforms. He has led product and engineering efforts at Mobile Labs and long-form streaming and native client work at Discord, and now focuses on video game-related systems at Discord again. His hands-on background spans kernel-mode audio routing (authoring early IOCTL-driven Windows driver components), voice/video services, and rapid prototyping as an independent consultant. Comfortable bridging product and deep systems engineering, he combines leadership-level strategy with continued low-level coding chops—often laying groundwork for future driver and media infrastructure work. Based in Texas, he brings an unusual blend of product ownership and kernel/audio expertise that helps teams ship performant media experiences.
21 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (5)
windows-driver10
c-language10
driver10
ioctl10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eiz/SynchronousAudioRouter
Aug 2015 - Jan 2020
Low latency application audio routing for Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 243 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mack's contributions focused on implementing the initial functionality for a kernel-mode audio router for Windows. They started by implementing an IOCTL handler within the driver, including the setup of a device object and defining the control codes used for interacting with it. The development involved defining structures for requests related to audio endpoints. Additionally, the user laid the groundwork for a future KS minidriver implementation.
audiolow-latencywindows
eiz/adrastea
May 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:238 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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