Marcos Silva
Software Engineer at Toptal
Lombardy, Italy
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SeniorMarcos Silva is a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with over a decade of professional experience and 15+ years of hands-on development, currently driving R&D architecture and delivery at Citeline from Lombardy, Italy. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript stacks, cloud-native tooling and API design, having built secure REST APIs with TypeScript/Node.js and implemented SSO, Terraform-driven infrastructure, and monorepo strategies to boost developer velocity. As a Toptal freelancer and former VP of Engineering and technical lead, he combines leadership with deep implementation skills across React, NestJS, AWS, Kafka and CI/CD improvements that materially reduced build times. Marcos also has an academic background in optimization and MILP research, and an entrepreneurial streak—co-founding a product-focused startup and shipping production-ready systems that marry design fidelity with measurable performance gains.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
expressjs10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
typescript10
api10
typescript-types10
rest-api10
nodejs10
typescripts10
argon2i9
cors8
javascript7
graphql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
makinhs/toptal-rest-series
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
A project made for REST API TypeScript/Node.js series
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 107 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily contributed to building a REST API using TypeScript and Node.js. Their work included setting up the basic server structure, implementing user routes, and adding logging capabilities. The user also refactored the code, added CORS support, and implemented user authentication using Argon2 for password hashing, demonstrating a focus on security and API functionality.
nodejsrestrest-apitypescript
makinhs/react-monorepo-template
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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