Pedro Silva
CTO at Emitu
Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Silva is a CTO and software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in computer graphics, game development, GIS and procedural generation to automate 2D/3D content for games, simulations and planning. He combines industry-facing entrepreneurship—cofounding Sceelix and leading Emitu—with a strong academic foundation as a PhD researcher and former assistant professor, bridging research rigor and product delivery. A hands-on C# enthusiast, he frequently works as a freelance developer (including via Toptal and 3Decide) building graphical applications and tooling. Based in Porto, Portugal, he is committed to team collaboration, modern development practices and staying current with design and tech trends. Less obvious: his career threads academic research, startup leadership and freelance client work, giving him rare fluency in both long-term R&D and rapid, production-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universiteit GentDoctorate, Informatics, Doctorate, Informatics at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, German, English, French
Github Skills (33)
procedural-generation10
perlin-noise10
nexus9
procedural9
python8
abaqus7
paho7
compression6
sdf6
streaming6
mesh6
point-cloud5
eclipse5
eclipseiot5
java5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DeadalusVIII/apache-project-manager
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
pabsilva/react-dat-gui-x
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
React dat.GUI
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
reactdat-guiguidatreactjs
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