Robson Silva
Senior Software Engineer at Deel
Brazil
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Top SchoolRobson Silva is a hands-on Head of Technology with 11+ years of experience designing and operating high-throughput backend and real-time systems across fintech, marketplaces, and SaaS in Brazil. He combines deep expertise in Node.js/TypeScript, Go, distributed system design and observability with product-minded technical leadership, having built platforms that handle tens of millions of users, messages and notifications. At PicPay he led the in-house real-time chat that scaled to 20M+ users while cutting vendor costs by over 80% and pioneered AI-driven tooling that raised legacy test coverage above 80%. He has a track record of turning operational pain into measurable business outcomes—reducing support calls by 65% at Loft and saving ~40% on AWS costs at OLX—while mentoring teams and scaling engineering orgs. Comfortable collaborating across regions and disciplines, he also brings practical experience integrating AI agents into developer workflows and improving cost visibility at the platform level. Fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, Robson pairs pragmatic delivery with long-term architectural thinking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Faculdade PitagorasPECLA - Programa de Español y Cultura Latinoamericana, Spanish Language & Latin American Culture Program, PECLA - Programa de Español y Cultura Latinoamericana, Spanish Language & Latin American Culture Program at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Portuguese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (41)
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que8
nodejs8
testing7
aws7
python7
continuous-integration7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robsonalvesbh/serverless-triggers
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
serverless-triggers is a CLI for generating event payloads to help you simulate AWS tool (such as SQS, SNS, S3, and others) triggers for testing your lambdas locally.
Contributions:15 commits, 22 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 months
awsclilambdasserverlesstesting
robsonalvesbh/robsonalves.dev
Mar 2020 - Jul 2023
A blog about cool things from the development world
Contributions:25 PRs, 92 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 4 months
gatsbyreactnextjsjekyll
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