Summary
Cristian Silva is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hamburg with 10 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and payment/checkout services for high-traffic platforms. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at FREE NOW and previously led backend and microservice initiatives at Rakuten Deutschland, focusing on GDPR compliance, membership services, and payment gateway integrations. Comfortable across the JVM ecosystem, Cristian applies Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, Redis and CI/CD pipelines to design resilient integrations between internal and external partners. His background includes PaaS infrastructure work at ADP and end-to-end EDI and financial document flows at NeoGrid and Hoepers, giving him strong domain knowledge in payments, integrations and operational support. Colleagues rely on him for architecture design, mentoring and improving deployment automation, and he brings a practical, security- and privacy-aware approach to production systems. Off the beaten path, his GitHub bio hint ("pLá!") suggests a personable, international character who thrives in multicultural engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Internet Systems Degree, IT, Internet Systems Degree, IT at Centro Universitário La Salle
English