Léo Silva
Software Engineer (Senior) at emagine - Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLéo Silva is a senior backend-focused software engineer based in Lisbon with 9 years of experience building scalable microservices, APIs, and distributed systems in regulated, high-availability environments. He specializes in Java and Spring Boot, cloud-native architectures, and system integrations—including biometric hardware, document verification, and payment (PIX) integrations for banking. Comfortable owning features end-to-end, he pairs hands-on production support with pragmatic architectural decisions, CI/CD automation, and containerized deployments on OpenShift. Léo has delivered mission-critical systems for visa and consular services, integrating SDKs for fingerprint scanners and passport readers while implementing asynchronous workflows on AWS S3/SQS and Kafka. He brings a strong testing and reliability mindset from work at IBM and CPaaS environments, and frequently prototypes POCs to validate hardware and architectural choices. Fluent in moving legacy systems toward modern, observable cloud-native platforms, he combines deep backend craft with practical ops experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
sensor9
sas9
ros7
simulation6
rio6
telegram-bot5
intermediate5
javascript4
nodejs4
api4
telegram4
sentiment3
predict3
machine-learning1
nlp1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leooleo/bsn_server
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
Servidor em Node.js para a BSN
Contributions:5 PRs, 57 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
node-jsjavascriptbsnnodejsservidor
leooleo/TP1-GOL
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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