Scott Silver
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Silver is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building production systems across fintech, logistics, and payments at companies like Compound Labs, Flexport, and Square. He is polyglot, comfortable shipping backend and smart-contract code in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, Ruby, Clojure and Elixir, and has deep hands-on experience integrating blockchain primitives—his open-source work includes backend and test infrastructure contributions to Compound’s Comet (Compound v3) money market protocol. At Compound he implemented and tested critical smart-contract features (allow/allowBySig, updateAssetsIn) and refactored pricing and liquidation logic to use Chainlink feeds, showing an aptitude for safety-critical financial code. He combines front-end experience from earlier roles with backend and protocol-level expertise, making him adept at translating product constraints into auditable, well-tested systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Whitman College
Github Skills (9)
hardhat10
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
testing10
swap9
back-end-development9
uniswap9
chainlink9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
compound-finance/comet
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
An efficient money market protocol for Ethereum and compatible chains (aka Compound III, Compound v3).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:576 reviews, 593 commits, 167 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development and testing of a financial protocol built on Ethereum. Their commits included adding scenario testing boilerplate, implementing utility functions for Hardhat runtime environment (HRE), and integrating these into test runners. They also focused on adding features for an existing smart contract, specifically the `allow` and `allowBySig` methods, along with the unit and scenario tests. Furthermore, the user worked on the `updateAssetsIn` function, related unit tests, and refactored the code to use Chainlink price feeds and testing the isBorrowCollateralized and isLiquidatable conditions.
ethereum
scott-silver/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 PRs, 82 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 11 months
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