Curtis Spencer
Partner at Electric Capital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarCurtis Spencer is a Partner at Electric Capital in San Francisco with 16 years of engineering and startup leadership experience. He combines investor-facing work with hands-on backend engineering, having held senior roles at Facebook and Oracle and co-founded startups including Spool and Cruxlux. Curtis has product-building roots (helping build Tweetbeat at Kosmix) and now contributes to open-source crypto tooling, adding robust TOML parsing, validation and JSON export logic in Rust for ecosystem projects. His GitHub activity shows a pragmatic focus on release hygiene and test-suite maintenance—version bumps and python3 test fixes for fake-s3—highlighting an emphasis on reliability and developer experience. He pairs founder empathy with deep infrastructure chops, making him adept at evaluating and shipping production-grade systems.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
version-control10
error-handling10
rust10
data-validation10
serde10
toml10
ruby9
json9
testing8
blockchain8
cryptocurrency7
decentralization6
python6
taxonomy6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
electric-capital/crypto-ecosystems
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
A taxonomy for open source cryptocurrency, blockchain, and decentralized ecosystems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 1593 commits, 799 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily contributed to the back-end logic and tooling for validating and exporting ecosystem data. They implemented features for parsing and validating TOML configuration files, including error handling and data integrity checks. The user added functionality to export the validated ecosystem data to a JSON file, and implemented sorting validation. Their work focused on using Rust and related libraries to ensure the accuracy and usability of the ecosystem data.
pythonblockchaincrypto-ecosystemsdecentralizedcryptocurrency
jubos/fake-s3
Jun 2012 - Dec 2017
A lightweight server clone of Amazon S3 that simulates most of the commands supported by S3 with minimal dependencies
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily contributed to version updates and made style cleanups, suggesting a focus on maintenance and code quality. Several commits involved bumping the project's version number, indicating a role in releasing new versions. Furthermore, they addressed testing-related issues and made fixes for python3 botocmd tests, demonstrating an ability to maintain and improve test suites.
dependenciesamazonsupportedamazon-s3aws-s3
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