Paulo Silva
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPaulo Silva is a Principal Software Engineer based in Vancouver with over a decade building scalable web platforms and security features for high-growth startups and Elastic. He leads architecture and cross-team delivery for Kibana’s security capabilities—most recently driving an Asset Inventory initiative and contributing to the widely used elastic/kibana repo by shipping full-stack Cloud Security Posture features. A hands-on React + TypeScript specialist, Paulo pairs product- and design-focused collaboration with pragmatic engineering: improving developer experience, refactoring technical debt, and launching reusable design systems. He mentors engineers, coordinates multi-team efforts, and leverages LLMs to accelerate architecture, testing, and documentation. Known for tackling complex integrations (backend + frontend) and performance-focused improvements, he brings a blend of security-minded design and measurable impact across user-facing and platform systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
System Analysis and Development IT, System Analysis and Development IT at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (20)
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javascript10
api-design10
restful-api10
data-visualisation10
rest-api10
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react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:986 reviews, 25 commits, 283 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily worked on features related to the Cloud Security posture in the Findings page. Contributions included enhancements to the vulnerabilities table, incorporating grouping capabilities, creating a custom data table component, and adding features to create detection rules based on findings. Their work involved the creation and modification of UI components, integration with backend APIs, and the implementation of new features based on API responses. The changes spanned both front-end and back-end code related to the Cloud Security Posture feature.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
opauloh/kibana
Oct 2021 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:809 pushes, 180 branches in 3 years 6 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
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