Noon Van Der Silk
Engineering Manager at Input Output Group
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNoon Van Der Silk is a pragmatic software engineer and engineering manager with 14 years of experience building robust systems and teams, currently working on Haskell and Nix at Input Output Group from Edinburgh. They blend deep functional-programming expertise with practical DevOps and technical architecture, having led engineering and CTO roles across startups and research-focused firms. Noon contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Plutus language toolchain—improving documentation build tooling and adding test/tracing utilities—which reflects a knack for improving developer experience as well as core language tooling. Their background spans AI/deep learning, quantum programming language research, and production services, showing a rare cross-disciplinary fluency. Colleagues describe them as thoughtful and people-focused (they literally care about "the happiness of all things") while staying hands-on in code, mentoring, and system design.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Pure Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc) Pure Mathematics at The University of MelbourneApplied Science Mathematics Physics, Applied Science Mathematics Physics at RMIT University
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Github Skills (44)
javascript10
nix10
document-generation10
java10
asp-net10
blockchain10
xml10
documents10
nested-loops10
haskell10
documentation10
onclick9
testing9
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Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
IntersectMBO/plutus
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
The Plutus language implementation and tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 121 commits, 78 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Noon's primary contribution involved enhancing the Plutus language implementation and its associated tools. Their work included building a combined documentation index for improved search functionality within the documentation, a task that required modifications to build scripts and build infrastructure. They also made a small typo fix, and contributed a script to start a webserver for the documentation. They also added a port of Lars' trace-running code and other test related functions.
programming-languageblockchainsmart-contractsplutus
silky/cppn-cli
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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