Faina Shalts
Senior Engineering Manager at Turnkey
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFaina Shalts is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience bridging software engineering and leadership across blockchain infrastructure and web platforms. She has led teams at Turnkey, OP Labs, Infura, and ConsenSys, focusing on developer experience, Superchain tooling, and scalable backend systems. Technically hands-on with Solidity, Truffle, Postgres/NoSQL, and full-stack stacks, she has contributed notable database and test-loader enhancements to the Truffle suite. Her background as a Harvard-trained attorney and health-policy researcher informs a rigorous, research-driven approach to product and engineering decisions. Faina excels at translating complex legal and technical constraints into practical engineering solutions and developer-friendly APIs. She brings a rare blend of legal reasoning, production engineering, and open-source impact to blockchain developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Development, Computer Programming, Full-Stack Web Development, Computer Programming at General AssemblyUniversity of California, San DiegoJ.D., Law, J.D., Law at Harvard Law School
English, Russian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
graphql10
smart-contracts10
databases10
solidity10
ethereum10
wpgraphql10
data-integration10
sql-database10
blockchain10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
trufflesuite/truffle
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
:warning: The Truffle Suite is being sunset. For information on ongoing support, migration options and FAQs, visit the Consensys blog. Thank you for all the support over the years.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 228 reviews, 752 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Faina made significant contributions to the Truffle suite, primarily focused on database integration and enhancements. Their work involved adding contract queries to the loader and test files, reworking the manual compilation process, and introducing new data structures. They also made changes to the code related to test mocks and database queries.
developingethereumsmart-contract-toolsjavascriptblockchain
truffle-box/arbitrum-box
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Boilerplate proof of concept to compile, migrate, and test code on the Arbitrum Layer 2.
Contributions:5 reviews, 32 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
boilerplatecompilelayer-2arbitrumproof-of-concept
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