Austin Whyte

Austin Whyte

Software Engineer

Discord

I’m a software engineer at Discord.

The two main projects that I’ve been working on are 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

Experience

  • Software Engineer

    Discord

    May 2022 - Present San Francisco, CA / Remote
  • Software Engineer

    Aruba: A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

    June 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 - August 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 - December 2019 Roseville, CA
    • Researched, implemented, and presented an Elasticsearch proof of concept to project architects.
    • Developed a full stack Spring Boot and React application on an Agile team.