Tristan 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.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Marcellus High School
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University at Buffalo
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