Raphael Da Silva
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Da Silva is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, observability tooling, and cloud-native integrations across companies like AWS and NVIDIA. He combines expert-level C and Python skills with deep Linux, DevOps (GitLab CI, Docker) and distributed systems experience, having contributed notable enhancements to the OpenTelemetry Collector—including Kafka integration and CloudWatch/Prometheus exporter improvements. His background spans production VFX tooling, FPGA-based protection systems, and large-scale service migrations, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems engineering and cloud observability. Fluent in Portuguese and English and based in Vancouver, he is pragmatic about operational reliability, often reducing support load through centralized logging and profiling-driven performance fixes. An applied researcher by training (MSc, USP), he brings disciplined engineering processes (PMBOK/Agile) to open-source and enterprise projects alike.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Msc in Electrical Engineering Power System Protection, Msc in Electrical Engineering Power System Protection at USP - Universidade de São PauloTechnical Diploma Informatics, Technical Diploma Informatics at Colégio Técnico de Campinas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (26)
aws-cloudwatch10
observability10
tls1210
amazon-cloudwatch10
kafka10
tls1310
mtls10
go10
aws10
libtls10
opentelemetry10
cloudwatch10
configuration-management9
metric9
prometheus9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aws-observability/aws-otel-collector
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:127 reviews, 42 commits, 140 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily contributed to adding and integrating Kafka support within the OpenTelemetry Collector. Their work involved modifying the `go.mod` and `pkg/defaultcomponents/defaults.go` files to incorporate Kafka-related receivers and exporters. The contributions suggest a focus on expanding the collector's capabilities to ingest and export telemetry data using Kafka, a popular message streaming platform. This integration enhances the collector's compatibility with various data pipelines.
opentelemetry-collectortracingorgsobservabilityaws
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:93 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily contributed to the AWS CloudWatch Logs exporter and the Prometheus remote write exporter, improving their performance and functionality. Their work included adding support for parallel processing in the CloudWatch Logs exporter by leveraging the exporter helper and validating the context during retries in the Prometheus remote write exporter. Additionally, the user fixed a typo in the S3 confmap provider validation regex. Further contributions involved including the instrumentation scope in the log records of the CloudWatch Logs exporter.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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