Summary
Ana Da Silva is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with 8 years of experience building backend systems and product-focused web apps. She combines startup grit and enterprise practices, having founded Pledgy to help Portuguese NGOs raise recurring donations while also contributing to migrations and scalable backends at companies like HiBob and Pennylane. Her technical work spans Rails, serverless lambdas, and integrations with payment providers (Stripe, VivaWallet), emphasizing reliable payments, reporting, and performance. Ana pairs a business education (Nova, CEMS) with full-stack developer training (Le Wagon), giving her a pragmatic product sensibility uncommon in purely technical engineers. She’s skilled at turning nonprofit fundraising needs into production-grade software, and has experience driving cross-disciplinary projects from finance and marketing into engineering outcomes. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic builder who bridges product, payments, and operational rigor to ship measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Photography, Photography at Instituto Português de Fotografia
Master, Business Administration and Management, General, Master, Business Administration and Management, General at Nova School of Business and Economics
Undergraduate, Business Administration and Management, General, Undergraduate, Business Administration and Management, General at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Photojournalism, Photojournalism at CENJOR - Centro Protocolar de Formação Profissional para Jornalistas
CEMS - MIM Master's in International Management, CEMS - MIM Master's in International Management at CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education
FullStack Developer, Web Development, FullStack Developer, Web Development at Le Wagon
English, Spanish, Portuguese