Per Da Silva
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPer Da Silva is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, ML and distributed systems for enterprises and open-source ecosystems. He leads Red Hat's Operator Lifecycle Manager team, combining deep Java and backend expertise with hands-on DevOps and Kubernetes work cultivated at SAP, AWS (contributing to MXNet), and multiple research projects. His background spans everything from early agent-based, biologically inspired simulations to production ML model provisioning, CI/CD automation, and containerized deployments. An active contributor to notable projects like Apache MXNet and the Operator Framework, he blends research-grade curiosity with pragmatism for scalable, testable systems. A detail-oriented engineer, he has improved core operator behavior and build/deployment pipelines—work that often targets edge and highly constrained environments.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Anglo CampinasBachelor's degree with Honors Computer Science, Bachelor's degree with Honors Computer Science at Monash University
English, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
docker10
c-language10
python10
operation10
testing10
tensorrt10
mxnet10
kubernetes-operator10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
operator-framework/operator-registry
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Operator Registry runs in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster to provide operator catalog data to Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 261 reviews, 7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Per's contributions primarily involve modifying the project's build and deployment processes. They updated Dockerfiles to include a specific user ID, indicating changes to the containerization setup. They also fixed file paths, including a modification related to the /tmp directory. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to query functionality and also made changes to the proto files.
lifecycleoperator-lifecycle-managergrpcopenshiftoperator
operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
A management framework for extending Kubernetes with Operators
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 432 reviews, 36 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Per contributed significantly to the operator-lifecycle-manager project, focusing on features related to CatalogSource pod scheduling configuration overrides and the addition of system constraint provider logic to the resolver. Their work involved modifying test files for end-to-end testing of these configurations. They also added functionality for creating arbitrary file-based catalogs, indicating a focus on improving the project's testing and deployment capabilities.
kubernetes-operatorsoperator-sdkkubernetes-applicationsk8s-operatoroperator
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