Lafaiet Castro E Silva
Software Engineer at Software Development Academy
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolLafaiet Castro E Silva is a Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines and distributed solutions, currently delivering software at Kuehne + Nagel from Tallinn. He combines practical expertise in Python web frameworks, web crawling and devops with applied data science—NLP, ML and deep learning—across structured and unstructured datasets. Past roles span startups and research labs where he led crawler development, search APIs and Elasticsearch indexing, and contributed to SDN and optical network testbeds, highlighting a blend of production engineering and systems research. He also teaches aspiring developers as a lecturer, reflecting a commitment to mentorship and knowledge transfer. Notably, his background includes work on EU-funded NECOS cloud research and government open-data APIs, showing experience at the intersection of academia, public sector and industry.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de GoiásBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Saint Louis University
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (47)
python9
machine-learning9
backend8
dates8
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
intl8
timeago8
selenium-webdriver8
datetime8
nightwatch8
selenium7
data-science7
testing7
selenium-server7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Lafaiet/backendEE2
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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