Pedro Figueiredo E Silva
Principal Engineer at Nordic Startup School
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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Top SchoolPedro Figueiredo E Silva is a Principal Engineer based in Tampere, Finland, with a decade of experience building end-to-end systems that bridge embedded radio, positioning, and data platforms. He currently helps ship a data-as-a-service for behavioral data at Behavix while mentoring and partnering with startups through Nordic Startup School, blending hands-on engineering with product and founder-facing guidance. His background in electrical and computer engineering and a D.Tech. from Tampere underpins deep domain knowledge in positioning systems, ML-driven analytics, and real-time infrastructure honed during multi-year roles at Wirepas and SimAnalytics. Pedro has led full-stack demos, gateway and positioning engine design, and even explored blockchain offload proofs, illustrating a propensity to connect low-level radio work with cloud and distributed systems. Known for fostering team learning and rigorous code review practices, he combines research instincts with pragmatic delivery to turn complex experiments into production features. He’s as comfortable discussing signal-processing research papers as he is shaping go-to-market demos and mentoring early-stage founders.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Technology (D.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Technology (D.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (51)
buffer10
integrate10
reference-implementation10
decode10
backend-api10
dbus10
api10
gateway10
backend10
mindmap10
measurements9
javascript9
mermaid9
python9
traceroute9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PFigs/sms-pusher
Sep 2017 - Jul 2024
Pushes sms to a list of phone numbers
Contributions:21 PRs, 43 pushes, 33 branches in 6 years 11 months
phonesms-messagessmspasswordphone-numbers
wirepas/tutorials
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Tutorials and cookbooks on how to setup 3rd party software to visualize and consume Wirepas Network data
Contributions:108 PRs, 147 pushes, 107 branches in 10 months
network-datapartyvisualizeconsumecookbooks
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