Sam Silva

Builder, Creator, Founder. Daring to build extraordinary things.

San Francisco Bay Area

About

With over 15+ years of experience as a software engineer and technology leader, my career has been defined by a deep passion for solving complex problems and enabling innovation. From my early days in Brazil to Canada and then the USA, I’ve gained a global perspective that fuels my drive to connect ideas, talent, and technology. Throughout my career, I’ve worked across diverse industries, leveraging cutting-edge tools and methodologies to deliver impactful solutions. I specialize in building high-performing teams, driving strategic initiatives, and harnessing the power of emerging technologies like AI, cloud, and serverless to create scalable, secure, and efficient systems. I am passionate about fostering collaboration, mentoring others, and driving meaningful change through technology. Whether it's optimizing systems, enhancing user experiences, or leading cross-functional teams. Let’s connect to share ideas, collaborate on challenging projects, or explore opportunities to drive the next wave of technological innovation together!

Experience

  • Founding at Stealth AI Startup
    Jul 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Daring to Build! 🚀

  • Founding Engineer at AI Growth Labs
    Jul 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Applied AI lab in the Travel Industry.

  • AI Product Engineer at AGI Inc.
    Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos

    • Developed an graph memory database to improve the AGI's agents reliability and effectiveness. • Created a social media scrapping pipeline connected with a graph database for personalized recommendations.

  • Founder & CEO at Evolua
    Jul 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr

    Evolua empowers developers and DevOps teams to optimize, protect, and scale their code, ensuring a faster and more secure development experience.

  • Founder & CEO at Linkeen
    Jul 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Developed from scratch an AI code review platform that reduced code review time by 40% while improving security and code quality. (Evolua.io) • Managed teams of engineers to develop various AI and cloud solutions for clients across the USA and Canada. • Architected a high-performance Next.js applications leveraging App Router, Server Components, and Image optimization to achieve 90% faster page loads. • Implemented advanced data fetching patterns with incremental static regeneration (ISR), route pre-fetching, and dynamic imports to ensure sub-200ms Time to Interactive. • Developed and scaled microservice architectures using AWS with AppSync (Graphql), Lambdas, EventBridge, Cognito, Redis and DynamoDB. • Developed full stack applications for leveraging the power of serverless architecture using AWS Lambdas, AppSync, Graphql, EventBridge and DynamoDB supporting millions of requests per seconds. • Developed custom RAG solutions using vector databases like Pinecone and Supabase PostgreSQL/pgvector. • Developed AI agents using Langchain/LangGraph/Python with Pinecone for similarity search.