I'm Silvio Leite, a Principal Engineer with 20+ years of experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems.
My work is centered around backend engineering in Go, with a strong emphasis on concurrency, consistency, and system design. I focus on solving complex problems in event-driven architectures, message processing, and scalable services.
Over the years, I've led the design of critical systems, improving throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance. I care deeply about writing efficient code, designing resilient architectures, and building systems that behave predictably under load.
- Build and scale distributed systems with strong consistency guarantees
- Design event-driven and message-based architectures
- Work deeply with concurrency, parallelism, and performance optimization in Go
- Improve system reliability, fault tolerance, and observability
- Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering standards
- Distributed systems & system design
- Concurrency patterns and high-performance Go
- Messaging systems and stream processing
- Observability and debugging at scale
- Reliability, resilience, and failure handling
I enjoy spending time with my family, hosting barbecues, and staying away from screens whenever I can.