Edgar Silva
Advisor at Skalena
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolEdgar Silva is a bilingual technology advisor and entrepreneur with over 25 years in tech and 17 years of direct leadership experience building integration, API, and identity-focused products. He founded and scaled multiple ventures—Skalena, Nasph and the Konneqt spin-off—taking product portfolios from consulting projects to enterprise SaaS with full P&L and investor relations responsibility. Edgar has led regional go-to-market and pre-sales teams at WSO2, Red Hat and Oracle, driving significant ARR growth across Latin America and closing multi-year large deals. He combines deep technical architecture skills (identity, API orchestration, legacy modernization) with business strategy, M&A and corporate finance training from executive MBAs. Fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish and experienced presenting complex technical topics internationally, he now advises startups on scaling technical roadmaps and integrating AI into modernization methods. An interesting detail: he has repeatedly turned internal projects into successful spin-offs and exits, demonstrating a knack for productizing consulting IP.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Sales Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Sales Management at MBA USP/EsalqPostgraduate Degree, Computer Engineering, Postgraduate Degree, Computer Engineering at Centro Universitário Internacional UNINTERExecutive Management, Strategy & Marketing, Executive Management, Strategy & Marketing at University of La VerneNorth Paraná University
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (97)
plotly-dash10
python10
flask10
data-exploration10
data-engineering10
data-analytics10
data-viz10
superset10
data-visualization10
asf10
data-science10
warehouse10
apache10
analytics10
business-analytics10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
skalena/openbankingBR
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
edgars/flowlet
Nov 2008 - Jul 2010
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 8 months
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