Wilian Da Silva
Engineering Manager Fraud Prevention & Security at Zup Innovation
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolWilian Da Silva is an Engineering Manager specializing in fraud prevention and security with six years of experience leading large engineering teams in highly regulated financial environments. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he currently directs a +30-person program for Itaú at Zup, blending hands-on architecture (Go, Kotlin, Java, .NET, AWS, Terraform) with strategic initiatives like AI-First productivity gains that have improved team throughput by over 40%. He pairs people leadership—regular 1:1s, career mentoring, and financial oversight of DRE and budgets—with active technical contribution, having led and refactored components of the popular open-source security tool Horusec. Known for building secure, scalable platforms (BaaS and fraud layers compliant with Bacen), he connects engineering excellence to business outcomes and sustainability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic tech leader who moves fluidly between code, cloud infrastructure, and commercial strategy.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Sistemas de Informação, Bacharelado, Sistemas de Informação at UNIPAM
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
golang10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
code-formatting9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ZupIT/horusec
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Horusec is an open source tool that improves identification of vulnerabilities in your project with just one command.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 428 reviews, 207 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Wilian's contributions primarily involve refactoring the Horusec-manager application. They deprecated the old horusec-manager and updated the public index files. They also addressed hotfixes, which included fixing redirects in email templates, improving code output, and updating formatting. Furthermore, the user fixed swagger configuration and made updates related to merging and refactoring code.
pythonbugbountysastclisecurity-tools
filipi86/horusec
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Horusec is an open source tool that improves identification of vulnerabilities in your project with just one command.
Contributions:144 commits in 5 months
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