João Da Silva
Application Specialist
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Da Silva is an Application Specialist based in Helsinki with 9 years of focused experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure and customer-facing software deliveries. He has built and productionized containerized platforms and CI/CD workflows for research and telecom projects, contributing to initiatives like EUDAT and the Language Bank of Finland. His background spans NATO-scale vendors (Nokia) to academic centers (University of Helsinki, CSC), where he merged systems engineering, automation (Docker, Jenkins, Ansible) and hands-on consultancy. A former army officer with formal training in computing and a MA combining philosophy and computer science, he brings disciplined leadership, cross-cultural collaboration and clear technical documentation to complex projects. Comfortable coaching teams and running support labs, he often bridges the gap between research prototypes and operational services. Notably, his career reflects a steady migration from systems administration into cloud-native DevOps for both commercial and research ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Externato São Paulo de LuandaPhilosophy, Philosophy at Universidade Nova de LisboaM.A., Philosophy, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, M.A., Philosophy, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Mathematics at University of Helsinki
Swedish, Finnish, Italian, French, Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (63)
csc10
csv10
css8
forking8
gradle8
testing7
robotframework7
deploying7
bdd7
docker-compose7
swarm7
mercurial6
docker6
python6
garden6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CSCfi/ansible-workshops
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Exercises
Contributions:10 PRs, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
javascript
joasilva/koivuwebpage
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 months
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