C Silverio
Principal Engineer at Machinify, Inc.
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolC Silverio is a Principal Engineer with 18 years building and scaling backend systems for startups and critical developer infrastructure, currently based in Menlo Park and open to remote roles. He has led engineering at npm (including as CTO), co-founded Serval Computing, and contributed backend architecture to notable open-source projects like the entropic package registry. Known for turning messy distributed systems into reliable services, he pairs deep hands‑on expertise with team-building and clear public communication. He prefers small companies where his work materially impacts product success and is skilled at making platform teams obsolete by raising their leverage. A longtime internet veteran with a BA in Mathematics, he blends old-school systems experience with modern cloud-native practices.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Danvers High SchoolBA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at Salem State University
Github Skills (15)
user-authentication10
authentication10
nodejs10
middleware10
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
json9
microservices8
microservices-application8
postgresql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
entropic-dev/entropic
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
🦝 :package: a package registry for anything, but mostly javascript 🦝 🦝 🦝
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 64 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:C primarily contributed to the back-end logic and structure of the package registry. Their work involved setting up middleware, including request logging, request ID generation, and authentication. They also implemented core functionality such as responding with JSON and text-based data. Additionally, they worked on defining API endpoints and establishing a read-through cache for legacy packages.
javascriptpackage-registrynodejsnpm
ceejbot/tomato
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
🍅 A command-line tool to get and set values in toml files while preserving comments and formatting
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
command-line-toolrusttomlcommentsformatting
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