Daniel Pilon
Software Engineering Manager at Google
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Pilon is a software engineering manager and hands-on engineer with 16+ years of experience building scalable, production systems across Elixir, C#, Java and JavaScript, and currently leading content safety platform efforts at Google. He combines deep expertise in DDD, API design, distributed microservices and low-level optimization with a passion for functional programming—recently exploring Rust and Clojure. Daniel has a track record of founding high-performing teams, raising engagement and eNPS through coaching and career-aligned mentorship, and enabling DevOps and CI/CD practices across organizations. At SumUp he drove cloud-native banking features, introduced event-driven patterns with Elixir Broadway and helped stand up an SRE function to improve platform reliability. He is an advocate for automated testing and production tooling, known for debugging hard-to-find Erlang/Elixir issues and sharing those practices company-wide. Based in São Paulo, he pairs language curiosity with pragmatic delivery: shipping systems that scale in the real world while cultivating healthy engineering culture.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Universidade Ibirapuera
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (7)
pattern5
elixir3
backend2
json1
logging1
logger1
console1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danielpilon/exercism-elixir
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
danielpilon/ctci-go
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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