Eric Silva
Sr. Director, Platform And Data Engineering
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolEric Silva is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, integrations, and secure infrastructure primarily in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. He currently leads platform and data engineering at Pfizer, driving DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, and scalable compute and data environments that accelerate research across global R&D teams. Comfortable in regulated environments, he blends deep technical hands-on skills (Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Docker, Java) with architecture and governance knowledge of FDA/EMEA compliance. His background spans MuleSoft platform leadership, large-scale event-driven systems that processed over a billion messages, and earlier Java/J2EE application development and CMS work, giving him rare full-stack infrastructure-to-application context. A pragmatic advocate for automation, peer review, and open source, he also brings a knack for translating research needs into resilient, auditable platforms. Based in Reading, PA, he pairs engineering rigor with curiosity—he’s a photographer and self-described geek who contributes to community projects alongside enterprise work.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Business Administration, Computer Science and Business Administration at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
hubot10
opt10
maintenance10
aws-lambda10
serverless-framework10
scheduler9
runbook9
ansible9
lambda9
serverless-applications9
operation9
ubuntu9
rundeck9
azure-functions9
serverless9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ericjsilva/ericsilva.org
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:12 PRs, 112 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 11 months
ericjsilva/kittatinny_responsive_child
May 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
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