Joel Silva
Sr. Software Engineer at Hertz
Athlone, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Silva is a senior software engineer and architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering enterprise systems across telecom, healthcare, and travel industries. Currently based in Athlone and working at Hertz, he previously served as Chief Architect at Optum (UnitedHealth Group) where he led cross-border architecture strategy, POCs, and global committees interfacing with UK and US teams. Joel’s hands-on background spans Java/Spring microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres and legacy-to-web migrations, plus real-time systems integration from his Portugal Telecom days. He has a strong track record as a bridge between business and engineering—coordinating multinational teams, defining roadmaps and best practices—and holds a CS degree plus an MBA from Universidade Salvador. A practical technologist who blends operational experience with strategic planning, he’s known for turning complex requirements into maintainable architectures and reducing project costs through targeted technology choices.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Universidade Salvador
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
spring-boot4
java3
redis3
docker-compose3
docker2
database2
grafana2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joeltadeu/shorter-url-service
Sep 2019 - May 2026
This repository contains an example of a shorter url service using Java, Spring-boot and Redis as a database.
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
databasejavaredisspring-bootdocker
joeltadeu/web-frameworks-benchmark
Jul 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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