Summary
Juan-pablo Silva is a Senior Software Engineer and backend tech lead with nine years building high-availability systems for Uber and Cornershop, currently driving international grocery search improvements at Uber Eats. He combines hands-on backend engineering, ML-informed ranking and forecasting, and people leadership—having managed distributed teams across multiple countries and led cross-org initiatives that tripled merchant options and delivered multimillion-dollar impact. His academic work includes an MSc on interpretability of graph neural networks and research applying neural models to source code, giving him a rare blend of production-scale systems experience and ML research depth. He’s known for improving service reliability and execution velocity through tooling and methodology, and off the clock he studies Japanese and designs mechanical keyboards—an illustration of his systematic, detail-oriented curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Universidad de Chile
Spanish, English, Japanese