Douglas Da Silva
Senior Software Engineer at CARIAD
Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolDouglas Da Silva is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-traffic, user-centric systems using Java, Kotlin, Node.js, and modern front-end frameworks. Based in Wolfsburg, he has scaled services handling millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per minute, emphasizing lean architecture, rapid feedback loops, and TDD-driven refactoring. A former co-founder, Douglas blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering—comfortable choosing the right tool for the job from JVM stacks to low-memory Node apps. He prioritizes customer outcomes and automation, routinely using Bash to eliminate repetitive work and iterating quickly on prototypes to learn fast. Trained originally in game and interactive media design, he brings a creative problem-solving mindset to backend and full-stack challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technician in the development of digital games., Game and Interactive Media Design, Technician in the development of digital games., Game and Interactive Media Design at Centro Universitário FeevaleComputer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Instituto de Educação IvotiTechnical qualification in software development in Java and .NET, Computer Software Technology/Technician, Technical qualification in software development in Java and .NET, Computer Software Technology/Technician at Fundação Escola Técnica Liberato Salzano Viera da Cunha
German, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (38)
javascript9
unit-testing9
mongoose9
voc9
que9
jestjs9
mongoosejs9
stylus9
boost8
expressjs8
linux7
mongodb7
react7
mean7
camera6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
caina/caina.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:156 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
caina/pando
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 1 year 2 months
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