Mike Da Silva
Picton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Da Silva is a product-minded software engineering leader with two decades of experience building and scaling full-stack platforms and mobile apps. He has led engineering teams through high-growth and acquisition phases, most recently as Development Manager at Shopify and previously as Director of Engineering at Checkout 51 where he architected an Open Digital Incentives Platform used by millions. Comfortable hands-on from Android and front-end interfaces to back-end APIs, AWS infrastructure and big data pipelines, he combines technical depth with hiring, mentoring and operational discipline. He’s founded a startup and spent time sabbatical-traveling, giving him an entrepreneurial perspective and a pragmatic focus on customer-driven product outcomes. Based in Picton, Ontario, he’s known for translating complex integration requirements into scalable systems and for stepping into both tactical delivery and long-term architecture roles.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.), Computer Science at Carleton UniversityLBP
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
shopify9
webhooks9
api9
authentication9
javascript8
caching7
proxy7
typescript7
graphql6
activerecord6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mikedasilva/longevity-framework
Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
mikedasilva/countykidsclub
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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