Ricardo Silva
Software Engineering Consultant at Consensys
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRicardo Silva is a seasoned software engineering consultant with 12 years of experience building backend systems, mobile platforms and core libraries across fintech, media and blockchain sectors. He has held senior engineering roles at Consensys and Bloomberg and currently consults through ForgeLayer while founding Aprovium, demonstrating both enterprise-grade engineering and entrepreneurial drive. Fluent in Java, Kotlin, Go and functional Scala techniques, he has a strong track record shipping Android SDKs, real-time financial systems and protocol-aware core libraries. Ricardo combines deep systems-level experience (kernel/Android source modifications and C++/Java core libraries) with modern distributed and blockchain stacks, making him comfortable from low-level performance work to high-level product delivery. Based in the UK and trained to MSc level, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach and a history of open-source involvement that surfaces in practical, production-ready contributions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Infomatics Engineer, MSc, Infomatics Engineer at Universidade do MinhoFunctional Programming Specialization in Scala, Functional Programming Specialization in Scala at EPFL
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Github Skills (11)
evm10
state-management10
database-management10
transaction10
transactional10
go10
ethereum10
blockchain10
multitenancy9
testing8
git7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ricardolyn/quorum
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
A permissioned implementation of Ethereum supporting data privacy
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 41 branches in 7 months
ethereumdata-privacysupportingprivacy
ricardolyn/quorum-acceptance-tests
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Acceptance Tests for Quorum
Contributions:80 pushes, 30 branches in 6 months
testingacceptance-testsacceptancequorum
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