Christopher Salvato
Senior Staff Engineer at Coinbase
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Salvato is a Senior Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently at Coinbase, who blends hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership. He previously led a 35+ engineer Billing team at Shopify responsible for subscription and payments infrastructure that processes billions annually. As a serial founder and operator, he built Leevo (acquired after sustained 7.5% weekly growth) and launched Colorado’s only fully electric limo fleet, demonstrating rare product-to-ops breadth. Deeply experienced in Ruby/Rails, subscriptions, and payment integrations, he’s an active contributor to stripe-ruby-mock, adding multi-account support and improving subscription handling. Trained in computer engineering (RIT) with a background in biomedical studies and psychology, he applies first-principles thinking and a servant-leader mindset to simplify complex systems and elevate teams.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, Psychology, Biomedical Studies, 3.62, B.S., Computer Engineering, Psychology, Biomedical Studies, 3.62 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Xaverian High School
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
api-doc10
api10
stripe-api10
testing9
debugging6
oop6
socketio6
websocket6
php6
model-view-controller6
javascript6
google-chrome6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stripe-ruby-mock/stripe-ruby-mock
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
A mocking library for testing stripe ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 20 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the stripe-ruby-mock library. Their work focused on adding functionality related to handling the `stripe_account` header, allowing for multi-account support. They also addressed bugs and improved code consistency, including fixing error messages related to subscription handling and properly setting the status of trialing subscriptions. Furthermore, the user added support for trialing when creating subscriptions.
stripetestingrubymockingmocking-library
csalvato/AdWords-campaign-creator
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
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