Julien Kmec

Julien Kmec

Software Engineer, Entrepreneur in California, he/him

About

I founded Bloxlink in 2017 as a freshman in college, a Roblox community management service that grew to 90M+ users and 1M+ communities.

In July of 2024, Roblox has acquired Bloxlink, making this Roblox's 9th company acquisition and the 1st of 2024.

Writing

2024
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Work Experience

2024 — Now
San Mateo, CA

Building first-party communities at Roblox.

Working on Bloxlink, Guilded, and Roblox Communities (formerly known as Roblox Groups)

• Engineered the entire "Ban User" feature for Roblox communities

• Contributed to Roblox forums, groups rebranding, and more

2017 — 2024
Remote

Built Bloxlink - a third-party Roblox community management tool.
• Launched MVP in 1 month during my freshman year of college.
• Scaled the application to 88M+ users using Kubernetes, Redis, and inter-process communication.

In 2024, Roblox has acquired Bloxlink.

2019 — 2020
Research Software Engineer at George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

• Developed a GUI application in Python to aid with processing digital hash evidence.

• Project funded by the DHS.

• Led the team and assisted the other developers in getting the deliverables made in a timely matter.

Technology used: Python3, SQLite3, HashDB, Tkinter, md5deep, bulk_extractor.

2018 — 2019
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

• Helped students with algorithmic problems

• Helped run the labs where students submitted programming assessments

• Provided Python programming assistance through Piazza, an online class discussion board

• Helped students with core CS topics

• Helped the professor with distributing class material to students

• Graded in-class quizzes, select projects, and other participation assignments

Education

2017 — 2022
BS, Computer Science at George Mason University
Fairfax, VA