Chapman Shoop
Principal Engineer at Red Bird Grey Bird
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChapman Shoop is a Principal Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building production-grade web and desktop software across startups, enterprise teams, and academic settings. He blends full-stack fluency—UI, backend services, and data pipelines—with a history of shipping practical features, from Django-based reporting systems at UT Austin to front-end and wallet functionality for the Peercoin reference implementation. Chapman has held senior engineering roles at Scribd and SocialCode and now runs engineering work through his firm Red Bird Grey Bird, where he pairs hands-on coding with client-focused delivery. Comfortable in both product and technical leadership, he advocates for robust development practices, documentation, and code review, and brings a quantitative background with a BS in Applied Mathematics and an MS in Economics. An understated open-source contributor, he has directly improved wallet UX and localization in a cryptocurrency project—evidence of curiosity that spans consumer web apps to decentralized systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Economics, MS Economics at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
user-interface10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
blockchain10
cryptocurrency9
staking8
decentralization8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
peercoin/peercoin
Oct 2017 - Oct 2021
Reference implementation of the Peercoin protocol.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Chapman primarily contributed to the user interface and wallet functionality of the Peercoin project. They removed a GUI option, added links to the chat and forum in the Help menu, and implemented UI layout fixes. The user also made changes to the Qt localization files and modified the GUI to decrypt the wallet for minting purposes, demonstrating involvement in both the frontend and core wallet features. They also addressed compiler warnings and brought back SoftForkDesc.
proof-of-stakeblockchaindecentralizedminablecryptocurrency
belovachap/pyvsystems_rewards
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
A library for calculating v.systems supernode rewards
Contributions:34 commits, 9 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
rewardssupernode
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