Austin Whyte

Software Engineer

Discord

Biography

I’m a Software Engineer at Discord

The two main projects that I’ve been working on is KirBot: a modular and highly configurable Discord moderation bot and Giveaways: a battle tested giveaway discord bot capable of handling giveaways with hundreds of thousands of entrants.

Education

BS Computer Science, 2021

University of the Pacific

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Python

PHP

HTML

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Laravel

Experience

Software Engineer

Discord

May 2022 – Present San Francisco, CA / Remote

Software Engineer

Aruba: A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Jun 2021 – May 2022 Roseville, CA

Implemented bug fixes and enhancements in a Python microservice running in Kubernetes

Applications Software Engineer Intern

Aruba: A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

May 2020 – Aug 2020 Remote

Designed and implemented a stable REST API microservice for interacting with other microservices over Kafka in a Kubernetes enviornment.

Applications Software Engineer Co-Op

Aruba: A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

May 2019 – Dec 2020 Roseville, CA

Researched, implemented, and presented an Elasticsearch proof of concept to project architects.
Developed a full stack Spring and React application on an Agile team