João Da Silva
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Times Higher Education
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Da Silva is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in Porto with a decade of experience building and operating production-grade web platforms across education, logistics and healthcare. He currently helps deliver Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings, owning features from Next.js and React frontends to NestJS/GraphQL backends and the surrounding DevOps tooling. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and observability stacks, he brings a practical DevOps mindset—evidenced by his contributions adding Dockerized REST APIs and automated testing to the popular YAKE keyword-extraction repo. His background blends academic rigor (PhD-level research in Semantic Web and several invited teaching roles) with hands-on product delivery, enabling him to translate complex domain requirements into reliable systems. As a technical lead at Kuehne+Nagel and earlier roles at Gyant, he’s repeatedly delivered high-performance integrations across distributed, regulated workflows. He combines deep backend and infrastructure skills with a track record of improving deployability and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado, Informatics Engineering, Mestrado, Informatics Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto12º Ano, Curso Tecnológico de Informática, 12º Ano, Curso Tecnológico de Informática at Escola Secundária Dr. Manuel Gomes de AlmeidaMIEIC, Informatics Engineering, MIEIC, Informatics Engineering at Universidade do Porto
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Github Skills (23)
api-rest10
docker10
api-design10
restful-api10
dockers10
rest-api10
flask-ask9
cicd9
bash9
flask9
mongodb9
logging9
python8
keyword-extraction7
heap-memory6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
LIAAD/yake
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Single-document unsupervised keyword extraction
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:João significantly enhanced the project's deployment and operational aspects. They introduced Dockerfiles for both the core application and a REST API server, enabling containerized deployments. They implemented a REST API using Flask and integrated it with Docker. Further contributions included automated testing via a dedicated script and streamlined build processes, which significantly improved the project's deployment strategy.
nlpextractionpythonunsupervisednatural-language-processing
feup-infolab/ontologies-database
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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