Skippy Ta
Senior Software Engineer at Twitch
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkippy Ta is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building high-scale platform APIs, client sync tools, and runtime infrastructure. He helped design the Box Content API and SDKs that now handle billions of calls per month, built Box Sync 4 and its auto-upgrade/deployment tooling, and improved HHVM-based PHP runtime deployments. At Twitch he focuses on identity, OAuth2, and platform APIs, bringing a pragmatic eye for observability and performance—evidenced by instrumentation that turned noisy signals into actionable metrics and a tenfold reduction in audit DB reads. Comfortable across backend systems and developer tooling, he gravitates toward messy production problems and systems that "just work."
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
qt6
box-api6
java6
golang2
go1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
grant-mullinax/jorach
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
for ravenguard
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 1 month
skippyta/santascript
Nov 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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