Gustavo Silva
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Coherent Paradox
Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolGustavo Silva is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI systems embedded inside enterprise engineering teams. He designs and operates agentic pipelines, discovery engines, and audited AI tooling that integrate directly into client workflows, moving beyond prototypes to production. As a former tech lead at a video intelligence startup, he helped scale engineering from MVP to growth-stage across two funding rounds and managed hiring and technical direction for a team of six. He also founded data-focused products — high-rated Apify actors and certidoes.ai — that automate web scraping and registry extraction at scale. An active security researcher, he’s disclosed multiple vulnerabilities (including two CVEs) and presented findings at security conferences, blending hands-on engineering with offensive-minded curiosity. Based in Porto, he combines deep systems thinking with practical delivery and a knack for turning messy data into reliable AI inputs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (3 years) + MSc (2 years), Informatics and Computing Engineering, BSc (3 years) + MSc (2 years), Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoFacultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona12º ano, Ciências e Tecnologias, 12º ano, Ciências e Tecnologias at Escola Secundária da Maia
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
userscripts10
browser-extension10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
violentmonkey10
menu10
firefox10
chrome10
context-menu10
tampermonkey10
webextension10
google-image-search10
thunderbird9
searching9
ublock-origin9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Sukigu/search-by-image-on-google
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Firefox extension for reverse searching images on Google through the browser's context menu.
Contributions:9 releases, 14 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 7 months
firefoxreverse-searchbrowsermenuwebextension
Sukigu/preference-based-student-group-assignment
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 25 pushes in 6 months
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