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Jorge Silva

Software Engineer

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About Me

I love to solve problems, discuss ideas and build exciting stuff. I have a good understanding of how computers works and experience with multiple methodologies/technologies.

I'm interested in Full Stack Development, Distributed Systems and Software Architecture.

Pragmatic, hard worker, strong defender of process automation, and a firm believer that good code should be readable and testable. I strive to create simple and elegant solutions.

Experience

Iota Foundation

Head of Engineering - Layer 2 Smart Contracts

I'm the team lead, and one of the core developers of the Iota Smart Contracts.

I'm responsible for managing the team, integrations with external systems, designing/implementing/maintaining a wide range of features for the Layer 2 ISC node software.

Bitfinex

Senior Software Engineer

Worked on the Bitfinex trading platform, developing new features and maintain the existing codebase. My main focus was high-quality performant UI code. Also did some Ruby-on-Rails/NodeJS backend work.

Applied Blockchain

Lead Software Engineer

Applied Blockchain is consultancy company that does projects for big and small companies, across a wide range of business sectors.

I worked as a lead frontend engineer, building complex and robust applications for our corporate clients.

Blip

Software Engineer

Blip is a software house that is part of Paddy Power Betfair (one of the biggest betting companies in the world).

I worked as a Full Stack Engineer, developing software for the Risk and Trading Team.

Designed and built performance-sensitive applications to inovate and improve the company business

Semasio

Software Engineer

Semasio is SaaS for media agencies, which uses behavioral targeting to define market segments for online advertisement.

I worked as a Full Stack Engineer, mostly in C#, doing frontend/backend development, container creation/orchestration, test automation, etc.

Codeplace

Lead Software Engineer

Codeplace was a marketplace for web development tutorials.

I worked with Ruby on Rails and built crucial pieces of software for the platform.

Deloitte

Consultant - Analyst

As consultant for Deloitte, I worked on two projects in the context of the Insurance Industry.

The first project was an ETL integration between two companies.

The second was to design and implement a CI environment to automate delivery and testing.

Education

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Sept 2009 - July 2014

Master's Degree in Computer Science

During college, I attended and organized multiple meetups/hackathons/conferences.

As part of AEFEUP team, managed the logistics for student parties and other extra-curricular events.

For my Master Thesis, used machine learning techniques to forecast user behaviour - predict whether an user was prone to buy some product based on his previous actions on an e-commerce website.

Colégio Internato dos Carvalhos

Sept 2006 - July 2009

High school

It was during High school that I fist started coding. Started with Pascal, Visual Basic and C/C++.

For the final school project, did an homebrew implementation of Guitar Hero (which was awesome and I'm still very proud of it to this day).

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