André Da Silva
Staff Software Engineer at Linera
Goiás, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Da Silva is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in high-performance distributed systems, currently architecting backend solutions at Linera after nearly a decade at Meta. He combines deep systems-level pragmatism with hands-on implementation skills—evidenced by core protocol work on linera-protocol where he implemented serialization, comparison traits, and identifier handling for critical backend components. Comfortable in both research-adjacent and production environments, he brings a strong academic foundation from Universidade Federal de Goiás and early teaching experience that informs his mentorship approach. Based in Goiás, Brazil, André blends large-scale engineering experience from Menlo Park with startup-grade agility, excelling at translating complex protocols into robust, testable code.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel, Ciência da Computação, Bacharel, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal de Goiás
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
deserialization10
data-serialization10
rust10
serialization10
data-structure9
data-structures9
blockchain8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linera-io/linera-protocol
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Main repository for the Linera protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:938 reviews, 658 PRs, 1698 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:André primarily focused on implementing core backend functionalities within the Linera protocol. Their work involved the custom implementation of traits such as `PartialEq`, `Eq`, `Debug`, `PartialOrd`, and `Ord` for various identifier structs (`ApplicationId`, `BytecodeId`, `SessionId`). They also implemented serialization and deserialization for these identifiers, alongside implementing similar traits for `BlobId` and other related components.
blockchainrustwasm
ndr-ds/linera-protocol
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Main repository for the Linera protocol
Contributions:14 PRs, 88 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 8 months
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