Jorge Silva

Software Engineer

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About Me

Seasoned engineer with a focus on distributed systems, smart contracts, and blockchain infrastructure. I've written production code that has secured and moved hundreds of millions of dollars.

I specialize in system design and implementation — breaking down complex problems into composable, maintainable pieces. I strive for simple and testable code, dig into root causes, align teams on goals, and make sure the best idea wins.

Experience

Syndicate

Staff Software Engineer

Building core infrastructure for the Syndicate Appchain Rollup Stack — including the derivation layer, RPC server, settlement logic, and on-chain smart contracts.

Writing Rust, Go and Solidity.

Iota Foundation

Head of Engineering - Layer 2 Smart Contracts

Led the team and drove the design, implementation, and maintenance of IOTA Smart Contracts (also known as IOTA EVM).

Worked mostly in Go, with a touch of Rust / JS for webassembly.

Bitfinex

Senior Software Engineer

Worked on the Bitfinex trading platform, developing new features and maintaining 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 a consultancy company that does projects for big and small companies, across a wide range of business sectors.

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

Blip

Full Stack Engineer

Blip is a software house that is part of Paddy Power Betfair.

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

Designed and built performance-sensitive applications to innovate 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 Full Stack Engineer

Codeplace was a marketplace for web development tutorials.

Built core platform features with Ruby on Rails, including a live markdown editor and invoice/payments integration.

Deloitte

Consultant

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/student events.

For my Master Thesis, I applied Machine Learning techniques to predict user purchasing behaviour in an e-commerce setting.

Colégio Internato dos Carvalhos

Sept 2006 - July 2009

High school

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

For the final school project, I built a Guitar Hero clone from scratch.

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