Richard Thai
Android Engineer at Discord
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Thai is a Berlin-based Android Engineer with 14 years of experience building user-focused, data-driven mobile products at scale for companies like Discord, Stripe, Reddit, and Groupon. He’s shipped core Android work for high-impact apps—most notably as a core developer on Reddit’s 10M+ install app—and now architects delightful experiences at Discord. His background includes large-scale data engineering at Reddit where he helped process tens of billions of events daily, blending mobile engineering with an operational understanding of data pipelines and ETL. Early career work at NASA and contributions to networking and okHttp improvements demonstrate a bent for rigorous systems thinking and performance-sensitive code. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, infrastructure, and analytics needs, turning complex requirements into polished, resilient Android features. He holds a BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
section-header9
textview9
android-library9
kotlin8
stripe8
android8
android-sdk8
java8
java-api6
android-networking6
retrofit6
okhttp6
proguard6
android-studio6
http6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seato/Pugnotification
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
A powerful library for creating notifications in android platform.
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
android-libraryandroidnotificationskotlinandroid-platform
alexmullans/Siftables-Emulator
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:35 commits in 2 months
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