Will Da Silva
Senior Staff Software Engineer at BeyondTrust
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Da Silva is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-facing platforms, foundational libraries, and dev tools from proof-of-concept to production. He led the creation of PyKX—bridging Python and q for kdb+—driving cross-platform support, robust CI/CD, and clever system-call tricks to manipulate third-party memory without copies. Comfortable across front-end and back-end work, he’s also contributed to open-source UI components like a Vue date-time picker, improving cross-browser and mobile behavior. A thoughtful problem-solver, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with strong cross-team communication—engaging engineering, product, sales, and customers to ship usable solutions. Based in Ottawa, he blends software engineering with interests in philosophy, math, and neuroscience, which inform a continual appetite for learning and elegant design.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at South Carleton High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Carleton University
English, French
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Github Skills (13)
datepicker10
vue-jsx10
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
unit-test10
css9
responsive-design9
activerecord6
vuejs26
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chronotruck/vue-ctk-date-time-picker
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
VueJS component to select dates & time, including a range mode
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 52 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the front-end development of the VueJS date and time picker component. Their work involved fixing visual quirks in Internet Explorer 10, adding unit tests for various components, and refactoring code for better clarity. They also focused on setting appropriate default values for props in several child components, and improving the component's Nuxt compatibility and mobile responsiveness. Additionally, the user addressed several minor visual and functional issues.
datepickerdialogcalendarjavascriptvue-datepicker
chronotruck/webpack-stats-diff-action
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Github action to print Webpack stat diffs in your pull-requests.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 19 commits in 1 year 6 months
bundle-sizewebpack-pluginstatpull-requestspull-request
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