Gonçalo Silva
Associate - Tech Lead
Odemira, Beja, Portugal
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Top SchoolGonçalo Silva is an Associate Tech Lead with 15 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, currently consulting across clients at Equal Experts. He has a proven track record stabilizing and evolving production systems—from reducing MTTR and outages in real-time Conversational AI call services to refactoring legacy monoliths into microservices for large e-commerce and media platforms. Comfortable both leading teams (up to ~10) and doing deep technical work, he blends pragmatic engineering, automation, and observability to accelerate delivery and reliability. His background spans mobile, backend, and cloud-native architectures (Typescript, Scala, AKS/Azure, Keycloak, Stripe integrations), and he’s long been active in software craftsmanship communities and mentoring practices. Notably, he pairs product-focused delivery with operational rigor, frequently turning high-pressure, public-facing requirements into robust, measurable outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
CLIPUniversity College London
Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
unit-testing10
android-applications10
maven-central10
jar9
espresso9
java9
robolectric9
kotlin9
maven-plugin9
android9
unit-testing-framework9
android-library9
broadcast-receiver9
maven9
hosting8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gnorsilva/Novocation
Aug 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:43 commits in 5 months
gnorsilva/Activities-LaunchMode-demo
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:6 commits in 17 days
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