Stuart Reed
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Reed is a Senior/Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable back-end systems from the Denver area. He blends deep engineering discipline with practical architecture work, regularly refactoring error handling, updating RPC frameworks, and improving API middleware to keep systems maintainable. An active open-source contributor, Stuart has contributed to the high-profile ethereum/web3.py project—removing deprecated middleware, enhancing async RPC access lists, and tightening documentation and error flows. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to developer experience and reliability, and his interests outside work (snowboarding, gaming, music, trains, and rockets) hint at a playful curiosity that fuels creative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (7)
middleware10
rpc10
web3py10
python10
ethereum10
blockchain10
documentation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/web3.py
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
A python interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:269 reviews, 114 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to improving the web3.py library, which provides an interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Their work involved removing deprecated middleware, removing references to pythonic, fixing documentation, and refactoring error handling within the RPC framework. Furthermore, the user also updated the documentation on middleware usage and added new functionalities like creating an access list for async RPC methods.
pythonweb3pyethereumpython-interfaceblockchain
sendgrid/ui-components
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Reusable React components for SendGrid's applications
Contributions:79 PRs, 137 pushes, 65 branches in 10 months
reactsvgrsendgrid-ssendgridreact-components
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