Scott Silver
Vice President - Product Engineering at YouTube
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolScott Silver is a product-focused engineering leader and Vice President of Product Engineering at YouTube based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has run large-scale organizations across Google and YouTube—at Google he led teams of ~1,300 engineers building ad platforms that supported tens of billions in revenue. Earlier roles at Amazon saw him modernize and double availability for core ordering systems (and even resurrect a donations pipeline during Hurricane Katrina that collected $10M+), while at i-drive he architected an early Dropbox-like storage service that scaled to millions of users using clever deduplication and partitioned persistence. A hands-on technologist from his days building JVM backends at Netscape and Connectix to designing distributed storage, he blends deep systems engineering with people-first leadership. Outside work he describes himself as a hobby programmer, but his track record shows a consistent drive to ship resilient, product-oriented platforms.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (64)
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python-script10
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networking9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scottmsilver/iftop-telegraf-influx
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
scottmsilver/wordbase-player
Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 9 months
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