Danilo Da Silva is a seasoned tech lead with 17–18 years of software engineering experience, currently driving backend architecture and delivery at CloudWalk after leading a 22-engineer backend chapter at James Delivery. He blends hands-on development in Ruby, Elixir, Python, Node.js and Go with people leadership, systems design, and payment integrations—having built critical features and credit-card integrations at Vindi. An active open-source contributor, he’s extended the rtesseract Ruby library for Tesseract OCR and helped make Brazilian government gazettes more accessible via web-scraping work on querido-diario. Comfortable across the stack and in Linux server administration, he has a track record of improving performance in production systems and mentoring teams through architecture and process. Based in Brazil, he pairs formal postgraduate training in software engineering and IT management with practical, cross-language engineering experience.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technical, Informatics, Technical, Informatics at Escola Técnica Tupy
Post Graduate in Software Engineering, Post Graduate Software Engineering, Post Graduate in Software Engineering, Post Graduate Software Engineering at Católica de Santa Catarina
Technologist, Technology in Information Systems, Technologist, Technology in Information Systems at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Contributions:120 commits, 39 PRs, 169 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Danilo appears to be a developer actively contributing to the Ruby library `rtesseract` for Tesseract OCR. They implemented core functionality, including the initial conversion of images to text using Tesseract. Key contributions include the addition of gemspec for packaging, modifications to the README and dependencies. The user also added basic tests and extended the library with new features like image cropping and mixed image parts.
📰 Diários oficiais brasileiros acessíveis a todos | 📰 Brazilian government gazettes, accessible to everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Danilo primarily contributed to the development of a web scraping tool for extracting data from Brazilian government gazettes. Their work involved creating and refactoring spiders using Scrapy to collect information from various online sources. They implemented features to extract data, including dates and URLs, and added functionality to handle extra editions.
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Danilo Da Silva - Tech Lead Software Engineering at CloudWalk, Inc.