# Stanislav Vishnevskiy

> Stanislav Vishnevskiy is the Ukrainian-born co-founder and chief technology officer of Discord. After growing up in Los Angeles, he turned an intense interest in online games and community tools into Guildwork, joined Jason Citron's game studio, and helped pivot its failed mobile game into a communication service now used around the world. His career has remained unusually consistent in purpose: reduce the friction between finding people, talking to them, and playing together.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Discord
- **Organizations:** Discord, Guildwork, Hammer & Chisel, GREE International, Kabam
- **Education:** Software engineering studies; did not complete degree, California State University, Northridge
- **Known for:** Co-founded Discord and continues to serve as its chief technology officer., Built the original Discord prototype in Elixir and helped scale its real-time architecture to millions of concurrent users., Founded Guildwork, an early social and community service for online-game guilds.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Founded Guildwork, a community and website service for online-game guilds.
- **2011** — Worked as a software engineer at Kabam.
- **2012-2013** — Worked as a senior and lead software engineer at GREE International.
- **2013** — Joined Jason Citron at Hammer & Chisel to work on the mobile game Fates Forever.
- **2014** — After Fates Forever struggled commercially, revisited the idea of a dedicated voice service for players.
- **2015** — Co-founded and launched Discord with Citron; became chief technology officer.
- **2017** — Documented how Discord's Elixir infrastructure reached nearly five million concurrent users.
- **2023** — Led the public explanation of Discord's move from four-digit username discriminators to unique usernames and display names.
- **2025** — Announced the free Discord Social SDK for game developers; continued as CTO after Humam Sakhnini became CEO.
- **2026** — Expanded the Social SDK strategy and authored public updates on Discord's age-assurance approach.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Discord and continues to serve as its chief technology officer.
- Built the original Discord prototype in Elixir and helped scale its real-time architecture to millions of concurrent users.
- Founded Guildwork, an early social and community service for online-game guilds.
- Helped lead the pivot from Hammer & Chisel's mobile game Fates Forever to Discord.
- Launched Discord's Social SDK for game developers in 2025.
- Was named with Jason Citron to Inc.'s 30 Under 30 list in 2018.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published Discord's revised privacy-preserving age-assurance approach, saying more than 90 percent of users would not be asked to confirm their age.
- **2026-08** — Authored a public letter about Discord's response to a Brazilian regulatory order affecting video and screen-sharing features.
- **2026-03** — Outlined new Social SDK account-linking, in-game communication and Rich Presence features at GDC 2026.
- **2025-12** — Announced Discord's pilot commerce capabilities for game communities.
- **2025-03** — Launched the free Discord Social SDK for game developers at GDC.

## Links

- Website: https://discord.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svishnevskiy
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/svishnevskiy
- GitHub: https://github.com/vishnevskiy

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Last updated: 2026-09-26