Scott Sallinen
Co-Founder & Company Director at Greymass
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Sallinen is a co-founder and company director who combines a PhD-level research background in parallel and distributed systems with 12 years of industry experience in ML/AI and decentralized Web3 engineering. He grew Greymass from a startup into a multi-million dollar, research-focused company while advising its technical roadmap and corporate structure. His technical expertise centers on high-performance computing and dynamic/temporal graph data, informed by hands-on research roles at Meta, Intel Labs, and Lawrence Livermore. Scott also contributes to prominent open-source blockchain infrastructure—improving EOSIO’s history plugin and adding smart contract inspection APIs—reflecting a knack for production-grade backend systems and observability. Unusually for a founder, he continued deep academic work through industry leaves during his PhD, bridging novel algorithm design with real-world system constraints. Based in Vancouver, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with a persistent focus on scalable, distributed graph and ML systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Software Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
eosio10
apidoc9
api9
network-programming8
data-structure7
data-structures7
system-design6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EOSIO/eos
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
An open source smart contract platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the history plugin within the EOSIO smart contract platform. Their contributions include adding filtering options to the history plugin, allowing for more granular control over tracked actions, and logging unexpected message lengths for improved network troubleshooting. Furthermore, they implemented a `get_code_hash` API endpoint, expanding the available information for smart contract analysis. These changes suggest a focus on improving the platform's functionality, monitoring capabilities, and data retrieval mechanisms.
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greymass/eos
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
An open source smart contract platform
Contributions:105 commits, 6 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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