Russell Silva
Software Engineer at Viasat Inc.
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRussell Silva is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and four years focused on embedded systems, firmware, and CI/CD at Viasat. He brings deep expertise in C, C++, and Python to design low-latency, resource-constrained systems while architecting automated build and deployment pipelines that accelerate reliable delivery. His background in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell and early research building RF localization and microgravity simulation systems gives him a rare blend of hardware-aware systems thinking and practical software craftsmanship. Comfortable moving from micro-level performance tweaks to macro architectural decisions, he also emphasizes DevOps best practices and Git-driven workflows to boost team productivity. Actively pursuing embedded and backend challenges, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with a track record of shipping production-ready firmware.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
GED, GED at Manhasset High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (1)
trilateration10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jakapoor/AMRUPT
May 2018 - May 2019
Animal Movement Research Using Phase-based Trilateration (AMRUPT)
Contributions:155 commits, 135 pushes, 12 comments in 1 year
trilateration
russellmsilva/KUKA-robot-optimization-and-navigation
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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