Nelson Silva
VP Of Engineering at Prolaio
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolNelson Silva is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience driving digital transformation and building platform teams from Lisbon. Currently VP of Engineering at Prolaio and founder of Rematch, he blends executive strategy with hands-on systems architecture and platform engineering. His background includes senior technical and managerial roles at Nuxeo and Hyland, plus founding inEvo, giving him a rare mix of startup grit and enterprise delivery. An active backend contributor to collaborative editing tooling (notably enhancements to ShareJS’s real-time and session modules), he favors pragmatic modular designs that improve maintainability and testability. Nelson pairs a BSc from Instituto Superior Técnico with deep experience in distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure. Known for balancing technical depth with people leadership, he’s comfortable moving between code, architecture and business priorities.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de LínguasBSc, BSc at ISTFrancisco FrancoBSc, BSc at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, French
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
websocket10
real-time-data10
realtime10
coffeescript10
communications10
architecture8
architectures8
testing7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
josephg/ShareJS
May 2012 - May 2012
Collaborative editing in any app
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Nelson contributed significantly to the backend functionality of the ShareJS project. Their work includes implementing SockJS support, which involved creating a new file and modifying existing code for real-time communication. They also extracted the session handler into a new module, improving the project's modularity and maintainability. Further changes included test fixes for browser channel functionality.
collaborative-editing
nelsonsilva/.zsh
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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