Summary
Federico Silva is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems across startups and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on engineering—DevOps, Cassandra and Elasticsearch administration, Scala/Akka simulation, and CI for massive C/C++ services—with people leadership, having served as Engineering Manager at WeWork and now engineering at Zipline. His background spans architecture and technical leadership roles where he set technology direction, prototyped analytics and security features, and maintained big data platforms. Comfortable in production-critical operations and cross-functional delivery, he has a track record of shipping complex distributed systems and automating deployment at scale. Notably, he has repeatedly moved between deep infrastructure work and product-facing engineering, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and product sensibility.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst, Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst at Universitario Autónomo del Sur
English, Spanish