Marco Da Silva
Staff Engineer at Infrawatch
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Da Silva is a Staff Engineer and hands-on engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed platforms across cybersecurity and insurance domains. He has led startups from 0-to-1 as CTO and later scaled enterprise-grade scanning and data ingestion systems that process millions of events daily. Marco combines technical strategy with people leadership—mentoring engineers at all levels, hiring distributed teams, and driving cross-functional product, design, and ops collaboration. His work includes architecting a global internet-scanning platform (BinaryEdge) acquired by Coalition and refactoring large-scale scanning infrastructure to improve data quality, observability, and performance. Based in London, he increasingly applies GenAI to automate underwriting and risk workflows, blending domain expertise with pragmatic product thinking. He’s known for balancing high-ownership engineering culture with metrics-driven processes that keep rapid growth sustainable.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master (MSc) Communication Networks Engineering, Master (MSc) Communication Networks Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (90)
vulnerability-assessment10
vulnerabilities10
cve10
wordpress9
client-library9
api9
sca9
woocommerce9
security9
vagrantfile9
vulnerability-detection9
esxi9
virtualbox9
php9
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
igama/cve-search
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 months
searchesvulnerabilitiessecuritycvecve-search
igama/docker-grafana-graphite
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
docker-imagekamondockergraphitegrafana
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