Ian De Silva
Principal Software Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolIan De Silva is a Principal Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with 15+ years of experience building resilient, high-performance backend systems and shipping large-scale DevOps solutions. Currently leading architecture and delivery at Target, he blends deep systems knowledge (C++, Java, Spring) with pragmatic product sensibilities honed across retail e-commerce and enterprise platforms. Ian has a strong track record of reducing release times and complexity—authoring packaging and multi-tier cache strategies that saved months of work and improved data freshness—and he coaches teams in Agile, TDD, and measurable process improvement. A former university instructor and researcher with a PhD in Computer Science, he brings an uncommon mix of rigorous academic methods (non‑intrusive test coverage) and hands-on engineering that surfaces thorny, production-facing issues early. Colleagues turn to him for performance, observability, and practical designs that balance velocity with long-term maintainability.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (31)
kotlin10
matcher10
verification10
tdd10
testing9
unit-testing9
mocking9
rest-api8
api8
api-client8
kmongo7
api-platform7
graphql6
curl6
grpc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
desilvai-target/kmongo
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
[deprecated] KMongo - a Kotlin toolkit for Mongo
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
mockk/mockk
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
mocking library for Kotlin
Contributions:1 review, 4 comments, 2 issues in 2 months
matcherunit-testingtestingkotlinmocking
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