Victor Silva
Cloud Security Engineer at Mercado Libre
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolVictor Silva is a Cloud Security Engineer based in Montevideo with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging infrastructure, development, and security. He has progressed from help desk and Microsoft professional services roles into cloud architecture and DevOps advocacy, now shaping security at Mercado Libre after leading cloud initiatives at Pyxis. Victor is experienced in designing custom solutions for complex incidents and early adoption of new technologies to improve productivity and operational resilience. He combines practical monitoring and incident-response expertise from industrial environments with cloud-native security practices. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous customer requirements into auditable, production-ready systems and for mentoring cross-functional teams through migrations and hardening projects. His background in computer engineering underpins a pragmatic, research-driven approach to security engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en Computación, Ingeniería en Computación at Universidad de la República
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (69)
github10
windows10
microsoft-azure10
netcore10
linux10
powershell10
azure10
shell10
git10
macos10
microsoft10
intellisense10
command-line10
subsystem9
windows-server9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vmsilvamolina/PowerShell-Spells
Aug 2018 - Jun 2023
A list of PowerShell spells to become a real Magician :tophat: :sparkles:
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
spellspowershellmagiciantophatsparkles
vmsilvamolina/whiteblog-theme
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Minimal, wide, and white blogging theme for Jekyll
Contributions:38 PRs, 139 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years 2 months
jekyll-blogjekyll-themejekyll-themestheme-development
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