Daniel Da Silva
Software Engineering Manager at NGINX
Munster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Da Silva is a software engineering manager based in Munster, Ireland, who blends hands-on engineering experience with people-first leadership to deliver cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure at NGINX. With a background spanning full-stack C# development, mobile solutions, and DevOps practices, he has progressed from individual contributor roles to leading squads and engineering teams across global organizations. He excels at translating customer problems into clear requirements, improving CI/CD and reliability practices (including zero-downtime deployments), and mentoring teams in architecture, testing, and ownership. Daniel’s cross-functional experience as a Scrum Master and Technical Program Manager means he routinely coordinates dependencies, drives delivery cadence, and advocates for team health. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has repeatedly reduced process times and production incidents through automation and better observability, and maintains a public presence at www.danieljosedasilva.com.
2 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (18)
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
docker10
ingress10
coredns10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
go10
nginx-plus10
golang10
nginx10
k8s10
prometheus9
helm4
controller2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danielnginx/kubernetes-ingress
Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
sdutta9/kubernetes-ingress
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes
Contributions:2 pushes in 27 days
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