Luis Silva
PhD Candidate
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Silva is a Data Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building and automating large-scale distributed data systems, blending research-led algorithms for storage and replication with hands-on production expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem. He designs and deploys scalable platforms using Cloudera components (YARN, Hive, Impala), Kafka, Spark, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), while driving automation with Ansible, Terraform, and Python. His background as a PhD researcher on mobile peer-to-peer communication and dynamic partial replication gives him uncommon depth in geo-aware replication and secure, low-latency data exchange for mobile clients. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has taught distributed systems at scale and delivered middleware and storage features for virtualization platforms. Based in Lisbon, he brings a practical DevOps mindset to platform reliability and operational efficiency, and off-hours you’ll find him mountain biking and photographing the countryside.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
filipedu11/presentationfct
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
fct-unllatexfctpresentation
lumitesi/graphvisualizer
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Graph visualizer.
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 months
visualizergraphsdata-visualizationgraphgraph-visualization
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