Thales Silva
Tech Lead at Aglets Solucões
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarThales Silva is a Tech Lead based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with eight years of hands-on experience leading backend development and delivery. He has progressed from software developer to tech lead roles at DPC and now Aglets Solucões, helping teams ship reliable systems and resolve concurrency issues in production code. An active open-source contributor, Thales improved the popular go-whatsapp project by adding sticker support, richer message context handling, new protocol buffer definitions, and fixing write-side data races. He combines practical protocol-level expertise with team leadership, often tackling the subtle edge cases that surface in messaging platforms. Known for bridging maintenance work with feature development, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to distributed systems and real-time communication stacks.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
whatsapp-cloud-api10
whatsapp10
go10
webapi10
protocol-buffers10
reverse-engineering9
parse8
parsing8
golang7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Rhymen/go-whatsapp
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
WhatsApp Web API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thales primarily contributed to the `go-whatsapp` project by updating the protocol buffer definitions to support new features like different font types and preview types, as well as context information in various message types. They added support for receiving sticker messages, including the necessary data structures and handlers. The user improved the handling of reply messages by incorporating context information in various message types like text, images, video, audio, document, location, and live location messages. Additionally, they addressed data race conditions within write operations.
golangapiwhatsappwhatsapp-webjavascript
sthales/sthales
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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