Nuno Silva
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorNuno Silva is a Director of Software Engineering based in Lisbon with over 20 years of hands-on development experience and more than a decade leading and scaling engineering organizations across finance, telco, gaming, CRM, streaming, and e-commerce. He has built and grown teams at enterprise names like Sky and BOSE and scaled product-led engineering at unicorns such as Pipedrive and Salsify, currently overseeing 50+ engineers across product lines and integrations. A pragmatic, human-centered leader, he focuses on trust, autonomy, mentorship, and retention while driving operational excellence through AI, Lean, DevOps, and product-oriented practices. His deep technical roots let him bridge code-level complexity and organizational strategy—evident in hands-on initiatives like relocating and hiring entire engineering capabilities (GDSN) to Lisbon. Nuno has repeatedly led greenfield and migration efforts, from Elixir/React greenfield platforms at BOSE to large cross-team integrations at Salsify, showing a knack for turning complex ecosystems into reliable, product-focused delivery engines. He combines startup agility with enterprise rigor, favoring measurable outcomes and scalable team structures over ivory-tower process.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
api8
rest7
specification7
swagger7
interactive6
openapi5
twist3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nunoas/environment
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years
nunoas/links
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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