Summary
Filipe Silva is an Android engineer with eight years of experience building and modernizing mobile apps, currently working remotely on a leading UK e-commerce native Android app at Mindera. He has a strong background in Kotlin and Java, MVVM architecture, Jetpack libraries and integrations, and has led device management work including Samsung Knox kiosk solutions at SWORD Health. Filipe pairs product-focused engineering with practical observability—creating metrics and tools using Stackdriver, BigQuery and Metabase—to improve stability and supportability. His master’s thesis project combined Android and embedded systems (Raspberry Pi/Arduino) for home automation, reflecting an ongoing hobbyist interest in embedded hardware that informs his mobile work. Based in Porto, Portugal, he is an open-source supporter sharing experiments on GitHub and enjoys mountain biking and winter adventures, a reminder that his curiosity spans both software and the physical world.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics Engineering, 15, Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics Engineering, 15 at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English