Steven Siloti
Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Siloti is a Senior Systems Engineer with 15 years of experience building robust, low-level systems and distributed back-ends from hard drive firmware to peer-to-peer protocols. Based in California and currently at Cloudflare, he previously helped design and implement BitTorrent v2, including Merkle-tree hashing and in-browser on-the-fly transcoding for streaming. His open-source contributions to the widely used libtorrent C++ project show a focus on concurrency, deadlock avoidance, and clean API design—evidenced by introducing a session_handle and simplifying session ownership. Comfortable across firmware, networking, and cloud infrastructure, he combines deep systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, high-performance software at scale.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
c-language10
c-library10
common-library10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
bittorrent10
data-structure10
concurrency10
standard-library10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arvidn/libtorrent
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
an efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 143 commits, 221 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Steven's contributions primarily involve modifying and improving the C++ bittorrent implementation. They focused on concurrency and data structure management, as evidenced by their changes to the `alert_manager.cpp` and `session.hpp` files, along with the introduction of a `session_handle` class. These changes included addressing potential deadlock scenarios in the multithreaded environment and streamlining the codebase by making the `session` class inherit from `session_handle` and removing wrapper functions.
bittorrentcppbencodelibtorrent
ssiloti/libtorrent-reputation
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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