Patrick Da Silva — CTO
I am currently a freelance senior software consultant, working on software engineering topics using the philosophy behind DevOps. I'm also a mathematician and was CTO in startups for over three years. On top of being an experienced technical manager, I've gained massive amount experience in the following areas: - frontend development (React, TypeScript, HTML & CSS) - backend development (also TypeScript with Node & Express, NestJS, and with python: FastAPI, Flask, Django, and others) - data science: that includes data analysis, data visualization, classification and clustering techniques, hypothesis definition and hypothesis testing, presenting results, etc. - machine learning (from the classical numPy & Pandas for data analysis all the way to LLMs, and any AI-related topic: linear & logistic regressions, statistical modelling, SVMs, neural networks, CNN, LSTM, LLM, etc. are all things I am very familiar with). More recently, my focus has been on cloud engineering with the following technologies: - AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda functions, S3, IAM, AWS organizations, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and many more) - Azure (mostly because of the integration with OpenAI, but I am also familiar with Storage Containers, Azure Functions, and the infrastructure I need to run LLM applications). - Terraform (both in AWS & Azure) - Kubernetes (I am CKAD-certified). Finally, I am very skilled with Linux, Git, and building CI/CD pipelines; whether it is with GitHub actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Bitbucket pipelines, etc. My main goal is to bring people in companies agility by introducing DevOps and supporting with technology. The word "DevOps" doesn't seem to mean what it used to mean anymore, so I decided to become more vocal on the topic on LinkedIn and meetups to spread the original philosophy that coined the word DevOps. DevOps is about agility. The so-called "agile" methodology got thrown around a lot, but owning a hammer and nails doesn't allow you to build a house alone. A company which embraces DevOps can make use of the agile methodology and its practices, but only by considering what's relevant for the company in the philosophy behind DevOps will true business agility be achieved. Reach out via DM if you need support in any of the technologies mentioned above; the people in my close circles and, of course, myself, can definitely help out bring you to a better place.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and cloud engineering expert with a focus on DevOps and machine learning.
Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Experience: 9 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- React.js
- Aws Cloudformation
- Aws Cdk
- Aws Fargate
- Amazon Web Services (aws)
- Kubernetes
- Large Language Models (llm)
- Microsoft Azure
- Python (programming Language)
- Technology Leadership
- Python
- Data Science
Career Highlights
- CKAD-certified cloud engineer with extensive AWS experience.
- Led development of an LLM-based translator application.
- Former CTO with a strong background in scaling tech teams.
Work Experience
ClearML
Senior Software Engineering Consultant (3 mos)
Wave Company
Senior Software Consultant (10 mos)
Túlka
Azure OpenAI Expert | Azure - OpenAI - Terraform - Python - React (2 mos)
PipeCloud
DevOps Engineer | AWS CDK, Bitbucket CI/CD (10 mos)
Smartly
Backend & ML Engineer | TypeScript & Python - AWS - GitHub Actions (6 mos)
Polar Squad
DevOps Consultant | Cloud engineering - Software automation - Tech assessments (2 yrs 10 mos)
Staiy
Chief Technology Officer | Tech Lead | React, TypeScript, Python, Machine Learning (1 yr 8 mos)
Berylls
Data Scientist, Machine Learning engineer, DevOps Engineer (5 mos)
Staiy
Machine Learning Engineer (3 mos)
HellaFastForward
Intrapreneur & Data Scientist (1 yr 2 mos)
Entrepreneur First
Cohort Member of EFBE1 (2 mos)
Cohort member (2 mos)
Berlin Mathematical School
PhD Student (1 yr 6 mos)
Technische Universität Berlin
Teaching Assistant (6 mos)
Université de Montréal
Teaching Assistant (4 mos)
Teaching Assistant (4 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Freie Universität Berlin
Master of Science - MS at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bachelor of Science - BS at Université de Montréal