Taynan Silva is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of engineering experience and five years focused on building scalable APIs and cloud-native systems using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS and Cloudflare Workers. He has a strong track record of cost-conscious migrations and optimizations—driving an 80% reduction in operational costs during an AWS migration and cutting database and email system costs by up to 60% while improving reliability. Taynan builds maintainable architectures (Clean Architecture, queue-based processing, ABAC) and pragmatic observability (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry with reusable Grafana dashboards) that support rapid iteration and low-latency services. He shipped a high-traffic events platform from scratch to 21,000+ accesses, implemented real-time chat and OTP microservices on edge platforms, and contributed backend/DevOps improvements to a private PaaS (convox/rack) adding scheduled cluster control and AWS provider enhancements. Based in Maranhão, Brazil, he combines hands-on implementation with operational rigor and a taste for squeezing complexity into elegant, minimal code.
Private PaaS built on native AWS services for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:30 releases, 92 reviews, 306 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Taynan primarily contributed to the `convox/rack` repository by implementing features related to scheduling rack scaling and modifying parameters. Their work involved changes to the CLI and core infrastructure components, including adding support for the shutdown and startup of the cluster via cron jobs. Additionally, the user made changes to the AWS provider, enhancing permissions and adjusting internal processes. The user also made changes related to the EFS resource.
Contributions:32 PRs, 23 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 2 months
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Taynan Silva - Senior Backend Engineer at Plenna.ai