Tiago Silva
AI Research Engineer at Toptal
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolTiago Silva is an AI Research Engineer and seasoned software leader with 15+ years of professional experience and a 20+-year passion for building software, from hobbyist game hacks on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum to shipping 60+ projects. He co-founded Hive Solutions, led engineering and architecture at Tynker where his teams built products used by over 100 million students and contributed to a $200M acquisition, and now pursues deep-learning, RL and agentic systems at VaultHaus while freelancing through Toptal. Comfortable across the full stack—frontend, backend, mobile, and infrastructure—he combines hands-on implementation with first-principles research to turn exploratory DL ideas into working proofs of concept. Pragmatic and entrepreneurial, he’s repeatedly translated prototypes into production and learned from both technical successes and commercial pivots. Based in Porto, he brings rare depth spanning product, scaling, and research, and still enjoys the low-level thrill of tracing game memory — a detail that hints at his enduring curiosity for how systems work.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciate Software Engineering, Licenciate Software Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoLicenciate Computer Science, Licenciate Computer Science at University of Lodz
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Github Skills (48)
python10
django10
mvc10
wsgi10
python-web10
flask10
ios9
objective-c9
addon9
macos9
swift9
cocoapods8
xcode8
colony8
plugin8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tsilva/capture
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
tsilva/curriculum-vitae
Feb 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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