Eric Scrivner
Web Developer at Coinbase
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Scrivner is a seasoned web developer and software engineering leader with 21 years building stable, scalable, and secure systems, most recently shaping blockchain and staking infrastructure at Coinbase. He has deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Python, C/C++, Lisp, and databases like PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Redis, and has designed key management and wallet systems serving millions of users. Eric excels at taking legacy or overloaded services through complete rewrites to dramatically improve reliability and scale, and he pairs that engineering rigor with cross-functional coordination—helping legal and product teams navigate complex technical tradeoffs. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed subtle segwit transaction parsing bugs and strengthened test coverage in bitcoin-ruby, reflecting a practical, test-first approach to cryptography-adjacent problems. Based in Los Angeles, he’s passionate about continual learning and enjoys exploring new tools and architectures to turn tricky edge cases into production-grade solutions.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Stackoverflow
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phpunit
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Github Skills (13)
rspec10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
segwit10
ruby10
blockchain9
phpunit9
scrum6
unit-testing6
php6
simpletest6
agile6
highload6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lian/bitcoin-ruby
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
bitcoin utils and protocol in ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to fixing bugs related to transaction parsing, specifically addressing edge cases in segwit-enabled transactions. They implemented tests to reproduce and verify the fixes. The user also cleaned up and reorganized the Gemfile and gemspec, ensuring all dependencies were present for running the bitcoin-ruby project. Furthermore, they migrated and added new tests to RSpec, improving testing infrastructure.
utilsrubybitcoin
etscrivner/f2d
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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