Tristan Wiley
Full Stack Software Engineer at Twitch
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTristan Wiley is a Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building creator-facing features at Twitch from React/TypeScript frontends to Go and Node.js backends. He’s the company’s go-to expert on Chat Badges, leading migrations that handled 50K RPS with zero downtime and transforming badges into a core engagement driver used by millions. Tristan has driven high-impact features like Community Moments that scaled to 90K+ concurrent viewers and automated badge distribution to eliminate manual work across teams. Comfortable with infrastructure and product, he’s led cross-functional rollouts, reduced operational debt, and responded to security incidents through hands-on code and data analysis. Passionate about the open source and creator communities, he builds tools for streamers and enjoys teaching others, blending technical depth with a communicator’s mindset. Located in San Francisco, he brings a track record of shipping scalable, production-grade systems that tie product metrics to developer efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Marcellus High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University at Buffalo
English
Stackoverflow
3,560reputation
298kreached
59answers
8questions
android
top-5%
android-fragments
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Github Skills (187)
stackoverflow10
material-design-lite10
chat10
android-application10
hidden10
kotlin10
stackexchange10
javascript9
facebook9
android-fragments9
chrome-extension9
css9
java9
android9
materialize9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TristanWiley/So-Chat-Commander
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
SO Chat Commands for the Stackoverflow Chat
Contributions:42 commits, 44 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 1 month
stackoverflowchatzulip
liamgens/DadSimulator
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 25 pushes in 1 day
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