# Elijah Marrone > Software Engineer at Discord Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elijahmarrone No, I didn't message you on Discord with my staff account - you're probably being scammed. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord Jan 2024 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Discord Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineer @ NEWNESS Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Designed the product ingestion flow for integrating Shopify into the platform, including database structure and ingestion API which utilized AWS Lambdas and SQS to maintain product state - Launched gift notifications, establishing a notifications server in EC2 and a pipeline from the server to the existing Ruby on Rails site stack - Led overhaul of user settings and following relationships. Coordinated across marketing and design teams while managing project timeline and requirements. Led to increase in user following behavior. - Automated introduction of new streaming challenges to the site. Saved engineering team dozens of hours per month, and increased average challenge participation by 20% within first two months - Fortified server for processing live video streams and improved handling for Amazon IVS events; documented end to end live streaming flow for the engineering team ### Software Engineer II, Touch and Pen Experiences @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States - Implemented new navigation swipe gesture for touchscreen for Windows 11, integrating new animation and touch detection within existing legacy C++ code in Windows shell and compositor - Rewrote the pen tail button launch component, collecting new requirements from four teams using the launch ability for app discovery, into a shared service compatible between two operating systems - Documented and presented report detailing existing navigation UX for Windows 10 shell. This report informed leadership of opportunities for improved UX and acted as priority guide for new designs ### Software Engineer I, A.I. and Inking - Data & Insights @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington, United States - Led the cross-team project between Windows Graphics, Composition, and Inking teams to create a new pipeline for collecting inking performance telemetry in latest Windows hardware - Created an SDK in C# to generate data for the A.I. and Inking machine learning pipeline, vastly reducing overhead and cost for gathering data to train the Office ink-to-shape recognition engine ### Software Engineer I, Office Experimentation @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington - Implemented an out-of-process redesign of how Office fetches dynamic values for its A/B experiments in C++, allowing experimentation values to be available on the first session of fresh installs and consistently refreshed - Designed a new user experience for the online portal used to configure A/B experiments, and worked in a small team to stand up a prototype using Typescript and React. - Collected partner feedback on difficulties with shipping quickly and tracking features, then worked closely with program manager to design and present tooling solutions to ease partner pain. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle - Designed and implemented a new system for deploying A/B tests which significantly reduced the workload on the client by eliminating the requirement for multiple daily network requests - Implemented a full-stack project, including a server and database component, Android application component, and underlying C++ shared library component - Wrote design documents for the system and presented the design with a demo to multiple teams ### Software Engineer Internship @ WhatsApp Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View - Introduced feature to prevent frustration and mistakes in user registration, used by 30,000 users in first month - Developed internal tool to upload and parse App Not Responding reports from users, and supplement reports with additional information useful for debugging - Created extremely thorough tests for implemented code before shipping to 100s of millions of users across the world - Worked in large, complex codebase shared across multiple platforms - Fixed long-standing bugs and improved existing UI ### CS Tutor @ UC Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA Tutor for Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs (CS61A) at UC Berkeley Met with several small groups of students weekly to cover course content in depth, offering additional support for struggling students. Ran bi-weekly extended study discussions (4 hours) which focused on mastery of specific topics. Monthly, reviewed student code for readability and style. ### Undergraduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA Taught Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs (CS61A) at UC Berkeley, the introductory Computer Science course at UC Berkeley Taught discussions, labs, review sessions, and held extra office hours and project parties. Gained expertise in Python, learning the language in depth to be able to teach it to others with authority Consistently one of the highest rated teaching assistants, rated an average of 4.76/5. Designed challenging practice problems and midterm questions tailored to the content of the course ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UC Berkeley Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA Lab: Ivry Cognitive Action Lab, UC Berkeley Programmed multiple experiments in Python. Managed numerous research participants daily. Analyzed data from research in MatLab. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Science (linguistics concentration) University of California, Berkeley Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elijahmarrone --- Source: https://flows.cv/elijahmarrone JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elijahmarrone/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22