Nova Maday is a software engineer in Chicago with over 10 years of hands-on experience across Java, Kotlin, C#, mobile (iOS/Android) and backend systems, recently expanding into frontend web development. As a Senior Software Engineer at Paylocity, Nova balances production-grade backend work with pragmatic API design and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, they improved developer experience on the popular Discord4J library by enhancing documentation, refactoring accessors, and adding context menu command support—signal of a detail-oriented coder who values clarity. Comfortable across the JVM ecosystem and mobile platforms, Nova brings a practical, full-stack mindset and a knack for turning ambiguous product needs into clean, testable implementations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Palatine High School
Discord4J is a fast, powerful, unopinionated, reactive library to enable quick and easy development of Discord bots for Java, Kotlin, and other JVM languages using the official Discord Bot API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 reviews, 39 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Nova's contributions primarily involved adding documentation to various event classes, demonstrating a focus on improving code readability and maintainability. They also refactored existing code by introducing methods to directly get the bot user's member and ID accessors in Rest entities. Further, the user enhanced the project by adding support for context menu commands.
DisCal is a Discord Bot that links up to a Google Calendar to create, delete, edit, and announce events and more!
Contributions:32 releases, 1604 commits, 92 PRs in 6 years 1 month
eventscalendar-componentcalendardiscordbot
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