Salvador Faria
Senior Software Engineer at Wayward
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSalvador Faria is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating scalable, cloud-native backend systems for startups, agencies, and enterprises including Google, Facebook, and Novartis. He specializes in Python-driven distributed architectures, data processing (Airflow, Beam, Dataflow) and high-performance storage/query stacks (Postgres, BigQuery, Datastore). Salvador has led migrations from monoliths to microservices, built internal Google-platform tooling, and architected publisher and marketplace integrations that blend product strategy with monetization research. Comfortable across GCP and AWS, he pairs infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD practices with a strong security and reliability mindset. He mentors teams and enforces engineering best practices, and uniquely combines deep Google-internal experience (google3, Blaze, Critique) with startup agility. Powered by good coffee, he turns complex business requirements into pragmatic, maintainable systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Informatics Technological Course, High School Informatics Technological Course at Liceu Jaime MonizMSc Computer Science and Engineering, MSc Computer Science and Engineering at Universidade da Madeira
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (25)
cms10
python10
django10
wagtail10
user-experience10
flexibility10
inline9
content-management-system9
content-management9
django-tenants8
har8
debugging7
chrome-extension7
chrome7
css7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
salvadormrf/multi-project-box
Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes in 7 months
salvadormrf/wagtail_gae
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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