Anna Silva is a full-stack Desenvolvedora Plena based in São Paulo with over 11 years of experience and 4.5 years focused on building back-end systems for web and mobile applications. She has strong expertise in Kotlin, Java, SQL and REST, complemented by recent professional work in AWS, GraphQL, Node.js, NoSQL and TypeScript across microservices and microfrontends. Anna has driven technical leadership initiatives—modernizing legacy codebases, documenting workflows, and delivering company-wide trainings on topics like Docker and Worker Threads. As an active back-end contributor to the widely used JDA (Java Discord API) project, she implemented core event-listening and listener-management features that improved the library’s extensibility. Comfortable in agile teams at scale, she also contributes to hiring and diversity efforts and communicates effectively about technical trade-offs. PcD and on the autism spectrum, she brings focused problem-solving and a detail-oriented approach to complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
Bacharelado Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado Ciência da Computação at UFSCar - Alumni
Bacharelado Computer Science, Bacharelado Computer Science at Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Java wrapper for the popular chat & VOIP service: Discord https://discord.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 3 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Java Discord API wrapper. Their work included implementing features like adding/removing multiple listeners, updating region definitions, and revamping the AnnotatedEventManager to support classes and multiple methods. The contributions also involved refactoring code to align with changes in the JDA core library. Their changes directly modified core components of the library, impacting event handling and listener management.
Contributions:4 releases, 26 commits, 22 pushes in 8 months
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