Jared Silver
Director of Engineering at Brilliant.org
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJared Silver is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience leading product-focused teams to build accessible, equitable learning experiences. Currently at Brilliant.org, he blends hands-on front-end craft with strategic engineering leadership, having previously shaped products at Hellosaurus, DataCamp, and Mystery.org. He contributes to open-source education projects like Oppia, where he has improved responsive UI and designed splash page variants to enhance learner onboarding. Based in New York, Jared balances a product-first mindset with practical implementation skills, often bridging design and engineering to turn pedagogy into polished, scalable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oppia/oppia
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 28 PRs, 9 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on updating the user interface and content across various pages within the Oppia platform. They made changes to the appearance and content of existing pages like the contact, about, and get started pages. Furthermore, they worked on the design and implementation of new splash page variants, including UI elements and styling. Their contributions also included style modifications to existing pages to ensure responsiveness across different viewport widths.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
oppia/foundation
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
informational-websiteinformationalfoundation
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