Rafael Silva
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Silva is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring for large-scale systems. He combines hands-on development and operations expertise to improve release lifecycles, observability, and incident troubleshooting, currently applying this at Sony Interactive Entertainment after progressive SRE and DevOps roles at AUTO1 and others. An open source enthusiast and occasional contributor, Rafael has improved core Git worktree functionality—adding usability annotations, tests, and critical bug fixes—demonstrating comfort working in low-level C and mature OSS projects. He also brings a strong training and tooling background from his earlier career designing courses and automation for Linux and cloud administration, which helps him translate complex infrastructure into reproducible practices.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Linux Professional in Cloud Network and System Administration/Administrator, Linux Professional in Cloud Network and System Administration/Administrator at 4LinuxBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Universidade UNGHigh School Information Technology, High School Information Technology at Centro Universitário Eniac
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (4)
c1710
c1110
git10
shell9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the Git source code repository by enhancing the "worktree" functionality. They focused on adding features like annotating worktree list output with "locked" and "prunable" statuses, improving user information and usability. Their work included refactoring code, adding tests to ensure proper functionality, and modifying core C files related to worktree management. The user also fixed a SEGFAULT issue in the maintenance command.
codemirrorcshell
raffs/meinelabs
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Launch services and application for learning, testing and development on docker
Contributions:32 commits, 17 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
dockertesting
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