Diogo Silva
Senior Software Engineer at Amplemarket
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolDiogo Silva is a Senior Software Engineer based in Porto, Portugal, with eight years of professional experience building web-first products and shipping polished front-end experiences. He has progressed through roles at startups and scale-ups—including Defined.ai, LetsGetChecked, and now Amplemarket—bringing pragmatic engineering and product-focused thinking to cross-functional teams. Diogo contributes to notable open-source IPFS projects, primarily enhancing web UIs and browser extensions, demonstrating deep React/CSS skills and familiarity with distributed web concepts like pubsub and peer interactions. His work often blends UI polish with practical refactors and integration tasks, showing attention to maintainability as well as UX. A Computer Engineering graduate from Universidade do Porto, he pairs solid academic foundations with hands-on contributions to widely used decentralized tooling. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented front-end specialist who also steps into backend and integration work when systems need tightening.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
css10
ipfs10
firefox-addon10
ui-design10
chrome-extension10
webui10
webext10
uid10
google-chrome-extension10
front-end-development10
html10
webextension10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/ipfs-webui
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
A frontend for an IPFS Kubo and IPFS Desktop
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 56 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Diogo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the IPFS Web UI. Their commits focused on implementing new features like a peers page and adding file operations within the file preview. They also addressed UI/UX issues through bug fixes, such as improving input focus, button states, and the user interface layout. Several commits involved the modification of components built with React, indicating a strong proficiency in front-end technologies.
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ipfs/ipfs-companion
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Browser extension that simplifies access to IPFS resources on the web
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 11 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Diogo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the IPFS Companion browser extension. Their work focused on refining the user interface, as seen in commits related to icon hover effects, the appearance of share checkbox arrows, and updates to the welcome page layout and content. The user also demonstrated skills in web extension development, evidenced by modifications to JavaScript and CSS files within the add-on directory.
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