Firecrow Silvernight
Founder Director at Compare Basic
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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SeniorFirecrow Silvernight is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building production web and language tools, now leading Compare Basic to develop a new high- and low-level programming language and product suite. He combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership across startups and scale-ups—authoring in-browser UI frameworks, dynamic onboarding systems, and a custom mathematical object syntax compiler—while coordinating small teams to deliver customer-facing value. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he has driven adoption of reusable frameworks at scale and improved developer productivity in Fortune 100 and startup environments. Based in Iowa City, he blends technical curiosity with eclectic interests—cooking and psychology—that inform a pragmatic, user-centered approach to product design. An entrepreneurial builder who has repeatedly moved from prototype research to live deployments, he’s equally at home writing language tooling as shipping polished UI experiences.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
notebook6
react6
dotnet-core5
asp-net-core5
react-native5
privacy4
markdown4
electron4
open-source3
evernote3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
firecrow/vertebrae-lang
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
firecrow/gekkota
Dec 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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