Lydia Schiff is a highly skilled software engineer with a strong background in mathematics and programming. After studying Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lydia joined VSCO as a Software Engineer, where she specialized in Android imaging and video. She was responsible for designing and writing much of the photo and video-editing code specific to Android, which helped her become proficient in Java/Kotlin libraries that use MediaCodec, C++, OpenGL ES, and RenderScript to do math fast. Lydia's expertise also includes application-level Android frameworks for soft real-time image and video processing and rendering, which she developed for six years at VSCO.

Currently, Lydia is a Senior Software Engineer at Discord, where she focuses on real-time video and voice infrastructure. She works with cross-platform native (C++/Rust) engineering to improve real-time photo/video processing on phones. Lydia's experience is particularly valuable in developing statically type-safe languages, as well as dealing with graphic APIs and heterogeneous parallel-compute on phones. But she's not just about programming; her interests also extend to science, self-study, and math.