Summary
Gus Silva is a hands-on Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building and leading high-impact engineering teams across Meta, Google, and consumer-tech startups. He blends deep individual contributor skills with managerial experience, having transitioned from Android and backend roles into technical leadership and engineering management at Wish before returning to senior IC roles at Google and Meta. Known for mentoring—evident from co-founding a mobile developer club and tutoring math—he prioritizes knowledge sharing and developer growth alongside shipping scalable systems. Gus combines mobile-first instincts with cloud-scale engineering practices, making him adept at bridging product, platform, and team execution. His career path shows a deliberate balance of hands-on coding and people leadership, favoring practical technical mentorship over purely executive duties.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mt. San Antonio College
English