David Silverman
SVP Of Strategic Product Initiatives
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Silverman is an experienced product leader with 11 years building and scaling Web3 and infrastructure products, currently SVP of Strategic Product Initiatives at Polygon Labs after rapid progression from VP of Product. He led product efforts at Aave for Lens Protocol—one of the largest smart contract systems—and has a strong technical product management background from roles at Catchpoint and earlier engineering internships. David combines strategic vision for developer ecosystems and revenue-generating Web3 features with hands-on technical fluency across APIs, backend systems, and developer tools. He also brings entrepreneurial experience founding a student venture fund and running campus venture programs, reflecting a knack for building communities and partnerships. Based in New York, he blends policy-savvy advising on regulatory impacts with operator experience shipping complex, high-growth blockchain products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Principals of Financial Accounting, Principals of Financial Accounting at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of MichiganHigh School, High School at Riverdale Country SchoolSummer Academy in Applied Science and Technology Computer Science, Summer Academy in Applied Science and Technology Computer Science at University of PennsylvaniaHigh Mountain Institute
English, Spanish
Github Skills (39)
crypto10
arweave10
polygon10
typescript10
ipfs10
nextjs10
wagmi10
turborepo10
tailwindcss10
blockchain10
graphql10
social-media10
vitest10
react10
sdk9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lens-protocol/profile-lists
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Specification for Creating Lists of Lens Protocol Profiles
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 months
lens-protocolspecificationprotocollistsrfc
oneski/DefiLlama-Adapters
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 pushes in 10 months
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