Paulo Silveira is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder who has spent 18+ years building education, product and developer ecosystems from the codebase to the boardroom. As CVO of the Alura–FIAP–PM3 ecosystem he crafts long-term strategy to help thousands of learners, careers and companies navigate digital transformation across coding, AI and data. He combines hands-on Java backend experience—contributing to notable open-source projects like VRaptor and Caelum Stella—with operator experience scaling Alura to a multi-product group and 2000+ collaborators. An active community builder in São Paulo, he creates tech events and podcasts while mentoring founders as an angel investor in ~40 startups. He also brings academic depth from USP (Computer Science, masters work in algorithms/origami) and a practical focus on turning developer tooling and learning products into measurable career impact.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bootcamp Data Science Aplicada 2021, Bootcamp Data Science Aplicada 2021 at Alura
Masters Computer Science Origami Mathematics and Algorithms, Masters Computer Science Origami Mathematics and Algorithms at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:63 commits, 1 push, 4 comments in 11 years
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily worked on refactoring and restructuring the `caelum-stella` repository, specifically focusing on the `stella-jboleto` module. They initiated the breakdown of the `Boleto` interface and reorganized the `Bancos` class to align with an interface-based design. Their efforts encompassed removing dependencies on external libraries (JBoleto) and implementing PDF generation features from scratch. They also made various improvements on the existing code, including refactoring the classes and methods.
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the VRaptor framework. Their work involved adding dependencies for compilation, creating a temporary directory for multipart file uploads and implementing Google App Engine support. The user also fixed code issues to properly log the classes with wrong annotations, modified regular expressions in the parameters control, and made adjustments to the application component registration process.
java-webrestfulframeworkweb-mvcmvc
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