What About Antonio?

Hi there, thanks for visiting my Blog, just to let you know a little bit about myself, I am currently working as Director of Engineering for Yahoo!. I am in charge of the Yahoo! Identities team which includes products like Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Pulse, Yahoo! Avatars, Yahoo! Meme and the new Yahoo! Profile. THese are all small agile teams that apply several principles like Lean, Kanban and Scrum to deliver continuous value to our users.

Previously to Yahoo! I was in charge of the WebMedia team at Globo.com, which is responsible for all the solutions regarding audio and video technology and the integration with TV Globo‘s engineering team (CGE) to brigde the Broadcast projects with the Internet media.

I’ve being working with Internet related projects for the last 13 years, participating on several high scale/high volume projects and being responsible for some of the biggest online media events in South America, like the live broadcast of the Germany’s World Cup in 2006 and the BigBrother Brasil reality show and the whole TV Globo’s Internet video infrastruture and production systems.

Prior to Globo.com I worked at RealNetworks as Sales and Systems engineer and again working on some of the biggest telecom and media companies in Latin America.

Right now I am really interested in how to change the culture and the processes of a company, adding more agility to the development and delivering continuous value to our customers, I am specially studying about Lean and other agile development methods.

I am married and have 2 boys, also I am a geek who loves to play video games, to buy gadgets, to work with technology and people, and to be able to experiment new stuff as much as I can.

Once again thanks for your interest and take care,

Antonio Carlos Silveira