Silas Boyd-wickizer
Cryptocurrency Engineering at Stripe
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Boyd-wickizer is a data-informed engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling crypto-native and platform products, currently on the Cryptocurrency Engineering team at Stripe after serving as CTO of Valora where he grew a mobile wallet to over one million users across 150+ countries. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to well-known open-source projects that integrate secrets management and Kubernetes clients—with strategic leadership in experimentation-driven product engineering. At GoDaddy he led teams that delivered self-service platforms, rapid experimentation, and ML-backed customer experiences, and he has a track record of improving developer workflows and release processes. Trained at Stanford and MIT (PhD), he combines rigorous academic foundations with practical execution, and he often surfaces non-obvious improvements like switching secret update semantics or hardening client authentication to increase reliability and security.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
javascript10
develop10
apidoc10
aws-secrets-manager10
user-authentication10
authentication10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
nodejs10
backend10
testing9
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
godaddy/kubernetes-client
Aug 2016 - Apr 2020
Simplified Kubernetes API client for Node.js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:207 commits, 556 PRs, 594 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Silas primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Kubernetes client for Node.js, introducing and improving authentication support, including client certificate authentication. They also enhanced the testing infrastructure by increasing timeouts, making timeouts configurable, and refactoring the test setup. In addition, they refactored the code by renaming classes and added support for more APIs. The user also added support for switching API clients and handling HTTP request errors.
api-clientapikubernetes-apinode-jssimplified
external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 65 commits, 164 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Silas contributed primarily to the backend logic of the external secrets integration with Kubernetes, focusing on AWS Secrets Manager support. They implemented features to handle JSON objects and updated the system to utilize PUT instead of PATCH for secret updates. Additionally, they worked on improving the deployment process by creating scripts for image publishing and release management, and refactored code to prepare for standard coding practices.
secret-managementsecrets-managersecurityvaulthashicorp
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