Luís Silva
Invited Assistant Professor at Universidade de Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLuís Silva is an invited assistant professor and CTO with 15 years of experience building scalable biomedical informatics systems and leading R&D at BMD Software. He designs and delivers production-grade architectures for medical imaging and screening programs across Europe and the US, combining hands-on development in Python, Java and JavaScript with strategic technical leadership. Author and contributor to notable open-source projects like Dicoogle (an open-source PACS) and contributors to cloud middleware, he has indexed over 50 million medical images and led integration work on the EU-wide EMIF platform. His work spans data integration, DICOM/IHE standards, information retrieval and semantic web technologies, translating research prototypes into deployed healthcare products. Uncommonly for a CTO, he remains deeply active in core code — from backend SimpleDB support in jclouds to React front-ends — ensuring architectural choices map to maintainable implementations. Based in Aveiro, Portugal, he combines academic rigor from a MAP-i PhD background with practical, multinational deployment experience.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at PhD - MAP-i (University of Aveiro, Porto and Minho)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science - Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science - Biomedical Informatics at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoMaster of Science, Computers and Telematics, Master of Science, Computers and Telematics at Universidade de Aveiro
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
middleware10
back-end-development10
jclouds10
python10
storage10
java10
javas10
zfs10
nas10
rest-api10
nodejs10
react10
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bioinformatics-ua/dicoogle
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
Dicoogle - Open Source PACS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 43 reviews, 667 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Luís contributed to the core components of the Dicoogle Open Source PACS. Their work focused on the development of Java and JavaScript features, including the creation of core components, feature/API code, and integration with the web interface. The user's commits demonstrate their involvement in building the front-end user interface using React and integrating with other technologies such as nodejs.
pythonjavascriptdicomdicoogle-platformnodejs
truenas/middleware
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 19 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luís primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the TrueNAS middleware. Their work involved fixing bugs related to VCP deployment, email format issues in UPS alerts, and issues with writing tunables to rc.conf. They also addressed validation errors related to pool processes and added features for handling birthday dates for software installation. The commits demonstrate expertise in Python and the middleware's internal structure.
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