Stephan Cilliers
Software Engineer at Coinbase
South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Cilliers is a software engineer with 11 years of experience blending product-focused engineering and entrepreneurship, currently contributing to Coinbase’s Smart Wallet team at Base. He co-founded two startups—one delivering custom digital analytics and another applying blockchain to make carbon offsets more accessible—demonstrating an ability to take ideas from proposal and fundraising through to product and maintenance. His background in electrical and computer engineering and hands-on work with embedded systems, hardware companion apps, and SDKs shows a strong cross-domain fluency between firmware, acceleration, and web3 protocols. Based in South Africa and self-described as a “cypherpunk wannabe,” he brings curiosity about permissionless systems and climate action to pragmatic, detail-oriented implementations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BScEng Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BScEng Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape TownHigh School, High School at Parklands College
Github Skills (128)
coinbase10
to-do10
abi10
wallet10
javascript10
ethereum-wallet10
typescript10
twitter-api10
wagmi10
mcafee10
ethereum10
discord-bot10
blockchain10
chatgpt9
aspect9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
framesjs/frames.js
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
The fastest way to make Frames
Contributions:429 reviews, 382 PRs, 735 pushes in 1 year
farcasterfarcaster-framesfarcaster-protocol
stephancill/mcafee2cash
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
A crypto trading bot powered by McAfee tweets
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 14 days
bittrex-apitrading-botbottradingtelegam-bot
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