Christian Silver
CTO Co-Founder at Polymath
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolChristian Silver is a CTO and co-founder with 12 years of engineering experience building product-led startups and developer-facing systems from New Zealand. He leads Polymath, a learning-games startup aimed at turning kids’ screen time into productive play, and brings hands-on full-stack experience from roles at Citadel, Improbable and internships at Yelp. A Cambridge Computer Science alumnus, he combines product leadership with deep implementation chops—evidenced by contributions to the popular Bolt CMS where he improved both front-end and back-end features and code quality. Comfortable switching between founding roles and individual contributor work, he blends entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic engineering and a knack for shipping polished user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of CambridgeInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Kristin SchoolSunnynook Primary
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Github Skills (12)
php10
javascript10
cms10
bolt10
twig10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
css8
html8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bolt/bolt
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:118 commits, 18 PRs, 140 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the development and improvement of features within the Bolt CMS, focusing on both the backend and frontend. Their work included enhancements to list fields, fixing bugs related to thumbnail updates, and modifying template priorities. They also addressed code quality by adding braces to one-line if statements and improving height calculations.
cmsboltmysqltwigphp
Pinpickle/tight
May 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:96 commits, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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