Chris Salvato
Engineer at Block
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Salvato is an engineering leader and repeat founder with 11+ years building products, platforms, and teams that scale—from founding and exiting a high-growth SaaS to leading Coinbase's Developer Platform and Shopify's Financial Services engineering. He specializes in turning ambiguous, high-stakes fintech and Web3 problems into shipped, compliant products by simplifying systems, defining clear platform domains, and streamlining distributed workstreams across globally remote teams. Chris has owned money-movement infrastructure for $70B+ in consumer spend, shipped KYC/AML systems for B2B2C onboarding, and driven company-wide AI adoption with custom LLM tooling. Comfortable alternating between hands-on engineering and executive strategy, he also contributes to open-source tooling (notably backend work on stripe-ruby-mock) and thrives in roles that require both product intuition and operational rigor. Based in Colorado Springs, he’s open to CTO/VP Engineering/Principal opportunities at mission-driven companies.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, Psychology, Biomedical Studies, B.S., Computer Engineering, Psychology, Biomedical Studies at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Xaverian High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
api10
apidoc10
stripe-api10
testing9
debugging6
oop6
socket-io6
websocket6
php6
model-view-controller6
javascript6
google-chrome6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stripe-ruby-mock/stripe-ruby-mock
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
A mocking library for testing stripe ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 20 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the stripe-ruby-mock library. Their work focused on adding functionality related to handling the `stripe_account` header, allowing for multi-account support. They also addressed bugs and improved code consistency, including fixing error messages related to subscription handling and properly setting the status of trialing subscriptions. Furthermore, the user added support for trialing when creating subscriptions.
mockingrubystripetesting
csalvato/AdWords-campaign-creator
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
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