Walkirya Silva
Engineering Lead at Creditas
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolWalkirya Silva is an Engineering Lead based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building and leading multidisciplinary backend teams across fintech and e-commerce. Currently leading engineering at Creditas after progressing from senior engineer roles, she brings deep hands-on expertise in Scala and Java microservices, AWS, and payment ecosystems that demand high availability and scalability. Her background includes evolving billing and API platforms at 99 and redesigning payment systems at Dafiti, demonstrating a strong track record of turning complex distributed requirements into robust production services. Comfortable in both legacy and modern stacks—from Delphi and Fortran early on to Node.js and containerized services—she combines technical breadth with people leadership, having managed teams up to nine engineers. Colleagues value her for pragmatic architecture decisions and for translating business needs into resilient, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado Ciência da Computação at Unifesp - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
expressjs10
backend10
testing9
continuous-integration9
aws-lambda9
aws9
parse9
lambda9
nodejs9
relay9
mongodb9
rest-api9
graphql8
parse-server8
developer-tools8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
walhs/TCC
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
walhs/simple-angular-app
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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