Summary
Paulo Da Silva Melo is a seasoned embedded software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience delivering automotive and industrial electronics from concept to mass production. He combines deep hands‑on expertise in C firmware, RTOS and Embedded Linux with proven people leadership, having led distributed teams of up to 12 engineers to achieve 98%+ ASPICE audit compliance and robust AUTOSAR-aligned deliveries. Paulo excels at turning complex, safety- and compliance-driven programs into predictable, on-time releases by enforcing traceability, automated workflows, and pragmatic architecture choices like secure bootloaders and OTA pipelines. His background spans MCU bring-up to cloud-connected IoT stacks (MQTT, TCP/IP, cellular, Wi‑Fi) and HMI integration, enabling end-to-end system ownership across electrical, software, and verification domains. Known as a developer-developer (as his GitHub motto implies), he mentors engineers into stronger coders and fosters audit-ready engineering cultures that balance craftsmanship with delivery. Based in Catalonia, he brings a rare combination of embedded low-level depth and cross-functional systems thinking that reduces technical risk and accelerates productization.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation Electronic and Telecomunication Engineer, Graduation Electronic and Telecomunication Engineer at PUC Minas
Post-Graduation Integrated Circuits Design, Post-Graduation Integrated Circuits Design at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese, Spanish