Mike Silvis
Software Engineer at Block
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMike Silvis is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building production-grade applications across mobile, web, and backend systems. He has led iOS engineering at Gametime and now contributes to engineering efforts at Block, bringing deep mobile expertise paired with Ruby on Rails and full-stack experience from earlier roles at LivingSocial and Socialcast. Mike has a strong emphasis on scalable, test-driven development and has shipped high-throughput systems (e.g., scaling Stampede to handle tens of thousands of redemptions). His background includes security-focused work at Boeing, giving him practical insights into authentication and secure release processes. Based in State College, PA, he blends hands-on implementation with product-minded leadership and a track record of improving both developer workflows and user-facing reliability. Outside of feature work, he tends to gravitate toward projects that bridge mobile UX and robust backend services.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Sciences and Technology, BS Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State UniversityState College Area High School
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Github Skills (130)
color-matrix10
cocoa10
storekit10
realm10
in-app-purchase10
paypal10
podfile10
protocol-buffers10
sdk10
carthage10
swift10
kotlin-android10
protobuf10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
square/in-app-payments-ios-quickstart
Jan 2019 - May 2022
In-App Payments Quick Start Sample iOS App
Contributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 4 months
ios-samplein-app-paymentspaymentsios-appin-app-purchase
square/SquarePointOfSaleSDK-iOS
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
A simple library for letting Point of Sale take in-store payments for your app using the Point of Sale API.
Contributions:4 releases, 15 reviews, 50 commits in 2 years 8 months
point-of-saleapipaymentssalein-app-purchase
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