Odysseus Levy
Staff Engineer at Sabbatical
Lafayette, California, United States
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Top SchoolOdysseus Levy is a Staff Engineer with over two decades of professional programming experience and more than a decade focused on server-side systems, currently shaping backend services for Sony PlayStation Network from Lafayette, CA. He has a deep C/C++ and Java/Scala background, proven track record leading teams and shipping high-performance, scalable systems under tight deadlines at companies like Twitter, Microsoft, and Disney. Known for pragmatic, maintainable designs, he has repeatedly driven dramatic performance improvements (e.g., 20x publishing speedups and high-throughput mail systems) and led platform-level efforts that improved client performance and reduced network traffic. His experience spans full-stack server and client work, from JVM-based backend frameworks to client-side optimization and tooling, and he’s built products end-to-end including an independent networked game and inbox-hacking utility during a recent sabbatical. Fluent in Japanese and comfortable coordinating large, cross-cultural teams, he blends technical depth with clear communication and a taste for solving hard problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Math/Computer Science, BA, Math/Computer Science at The Evergreen State CollegeLiberal Arts, Liberal Arts at University of Chicago
Japanese
Stackoverflow
16reputation
1kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (3)
google-maps6
apache-flex6
react5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OdysseusLevy/emailscript
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 releases, 58 commits, 50 pushes in 11 months
cosmosgame/save-the-world
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
A plan to save the world. Seriously.
Contributions:9 PRs, 417 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
save-the-worldreactplan
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