Michael Peterson
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Peterson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, user-focused systems from client keyboards to large-scale chat platforms. Based in San Francisco, he has spent the past decade at Discord, contributing to production-grade features and reliability for millions of users. His early work spans mobile iOS keyboard frameworks and low-latency frontend optimizations, showing a strong blend of systems thinking and UX sensitivity. Michael’s background includes backend API design with Java/Spring, data-driven tooling for research, and migrating legacy codebases across Swift and Objective-C. He’s comfortable across the full stack—frontend performance, backend services, and integrations—and brings a habit of turning research prototypes into practical engineering solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who notices small UI details that materially improve large-scale product interactions.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Carthage College
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Github Skills (51)
discord-js10
discord10
extendscript10
render10
api-documentation10
api10
discord-bot10
react-forms10
after-effects9
animation9
lottie9
bodymovin9
documentation9
adobe8
react8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
discord/discord-react-forms
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Forms... in React
Contributions:84 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 3 months
react-formsreact
mpeterson2/mpeterson2.github.io
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:72 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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