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Stanislav Vishnevskiy: the engineer who scaled Discord

Stanislav Vishnevskiy is Discord's co-founder and chief technology officer.

Stanislav Vishnevskiy is one of Discord's two founders. Jason Citron is the other. The two conceived the chat app together, and Discord launched in May 2015.

Citron is the public face of the company and was CEO until April 2025. Vishnevskiy is the technical lead and holds the CTO title.

His best-known public writing is the 6 June 2017 Discord engineering post on scaling Elixir to 5,000,000 concurrent users. It showed how the team ran real-time chat on the Elixir language.

In October 2024 he gave an interview to Eurogamer about Discord's origins and his part in conceiving the app.

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Who is Stanislav Vishnevskiy?

Stanislav Vishnevskiy is a co-founder of Discord and its chief technology officer. He started Discord with Jason Citron.

How did Stanislav Vishnevskiy start Discord?

He and Jason Citron conceived Discord together, and it launched in May 2015 out of Citron's studio Hammer & Chisel.

What has Stanislav Vishnevskiy built at Discord?

He leads engineering. On 6 June 2017 he wrote the Discord blog post How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users.