Dana Silver
Larkspur, California, United States
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Top SchoolDana Silver is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-scale backend infrastructure and mobile SDKs, now at Courier in Larkspur, CA. At Google she led Android SDK development for Firebase Remote Config, shipping features and hardening the platform to keep feature flags fast, reliable, and accurate. Her open-source contributions range from front-end polish—improving fastlane/docs UI, CSS, mobile responsiveness and CDN usage—to deep backend and test-automation fixes in the firebase-android-sdk, including a critical fix to ensure correct IID token retrieval and proper BCP 47 language tag encoding. She started on Twitter’s Fabric team and produced visual-analytics research at Middlebury that resulted in a generalizable investigation tool. Dana is known for pairing meticulous user-facing detail with rigorous SDK correctness, thriving at the intersection of developer experience and production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Middlebury College
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Github Skills (22)
firebase-remote-config10
testing10
css10
fastlane10
java10
javas10
android10
api-doc9
responsive-design9
api9
html9
software-design8
google-chrome-extension6
google-chrome6
jquery6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-android-sdk
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Firebase Android SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:190 reviews, 44 commits, 126 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Dana focused on improving the Firebase Remote Config (RC) Android SDK, making several significant changes. They addressed a critical issue in Remote Config by ensuring the correct retrieval of the Firebase Instance ID (IID) token before fetching configurations, preventing incorrect condition evaluation. Additionally, the user implemented code to properly encode IETF BCP 47 language tags. They also contributed to refactoring the dependency on the Firebase Installations SDK and removing deprecated methods. This user's work is primarily focused on the internal workings and testing of the SDK.
firebase-remote-configfirebase-databasefirebase-firestorefirebase-functionsdatabase-as-a-service
fastlane/docs
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
All the fastlane docs
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dana primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the documentation's visual presentation within the `fastlane/docs` repository. They implemented changes to the CSS, including styling for the side navigation links, tables, and header anchors. Furthermore, the user addressed mobile responsiveness by maintaining the normal badge size on smaller screens and adjusted the codebase to leverage a new CDN for static assets.
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