Robson Silva
Head Of Technology at PicPay
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
10 years of employment as a software developer
ESL (English as a second language) English Language and Literature/Letters, ESL (English as a second language) English Language and Literature/Letters at North Side Learning CenterBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Faculdade PitagorasPECLA - Programa de Español y Cultura Latinoamericana Língua Espanhola e Literaturas de Língua Espanhola, PECLA - Programa de Español y Cultura Latinoamericana Língua Espanhola e Literaturas de Língua Espanhola at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Portuguese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (55)
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Github contributions (5)
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
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robsonalvesbh/grafos
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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