Phil Salant
Software Engineer at Sussex Directories
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Salant is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building and maintaining distributed systems, APIs, and developer tools from Colorado. He’s shipped production Go microservices, gRPC APIs, Temporal workflows, and PostgreSQL-backed services while leading teams and mentoring junior engineers at companies like Coalition and Movable Ink. Phil contributes to open source—adding JavaScript algorithms to a popular Hacktoberfest data-structures repo and hardening Tendermint consensus tests—showing comfort across front-end scripts, backend validation, and CLI tooling. He’s also built privacy-focused infrastructure (Fides) and an eBPF-based Kubernetes scanner, combining systems-level curiosity with pragmatic product delivery. Known as a “geek of all trades,” he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership and a knack for improving reliability and developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry Physics at Penn State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at East Brunswick High SchoolFull-stack Web Development, Full-stack Web Development at App Academy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
algorithms10
consensus10
javascript10
scripting10
testing10
fest10
bash10
data-structure10
go10
blockchain10
data-structures10
permutation9
apim9
github9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/script-commands
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Script Commands let you tailor Raycast to your needs. Think of them as little productivity boosts throughout your day.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Phil contributed to the Raycast Script Commands repository by implementing and enhancing various script commands. Their work includes adding web search commands for package documentation, integrating a NextDNS status checker, and developing multiple scripts related to Bitwarden integration. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code, improved argument handling, and introduced features such as multi-project Sentry issue tracking and a script to open GitHub repository, pull requests, or issues.
scriptscriptingproductivityraycastscript-commands
tendermint/tendermint
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 47 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on testing and validating core components within the Tendermint Core, a BFT consensus engine. They added and expanded unit tests for various message types and configurations, ensuring the correct behavior of the consensus reactor and other internal structures. The contributions involved code changes related to the consensus mechanism's validation logic, improving the robustness and reliability of the Tendermint blockchain.
golangcryptographybftconsensusethereum
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