Pedro Da Silva
Senior Technical Director at Scopely
Braga, Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Da Silva is a Senior Technical Director and engineering leader with 11+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems for multiplayer games and high-traffic cloud services. He combines hands-on expertise in backend engineering, cloud (AWS, EKS/ECS, Terraform), and game platforms (Unity, Unreal) with a track record of growing autonomous, results-driven teams across LiveOps, Cloud, Web3 and Data. Known for "you build it, you run it" ownership, he has led engineering departments through architecture choices, CI/CD, observability and cost management while mentoring managers and engineers. His background in the Portuguese Air Force Academy gives him rare experience in embedded/real-time systems and formal teaching, which he leverages to bring discipline and rigor to game-scale distributed platforms. Currently at Scopely building a major new title, he balances executive leadership with regular hands-on technical contribution.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Novell Suse Linux Professional Linux Administration Certification, Novell Suse Linux Professional Linux Administration Certification at Novell EducationMaster Computer Engineer, Master Computer Engineer at Universidade Nova de LisboaBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Portuguese Air Force Academy
English
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (159)
python10
testing10
protoc10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
mws10
lambda10
developer-tools10
protobuf10
continuous-integration10
aws-lambda10
serialization10
rpc10
serverless-framework10
amazon10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
posilva/erlcloud
May 2016 - Oct 2018
Cloud Computing library for erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB)
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 4 months
gleamsimpledbec2amazon-ec2erlang
posilva/simpleboards
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Simple Leaderboards service
Contributions:13 PRs, 46 pushes, 12 branches in 8 months
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