Vicente Da Silva
Solution Architect And Team Lead At First National Bank
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolVicente Da Silva is a solution architect and engineering leader with eight years of experience designing secure, standards-driven payment systems for FNB South Africa. He leads merchant services architecture and has single-handedly built a multi-platform Android POS app and co-led terminal driver, eCommerce gateway, and pre-auth gateway products that integrate ISO8583, EMV, 3DSecure and core payment switches. A practical polyglot, he combines payments domain expertise with hands-on work in Java, Postilion/Base24 integrations, Azure, Kubernetes and containerisation. Vicente is also the author and maintainer of an open-source DC EMV kernel and payments stack, including JavaCard and HCE components, which demonstrates deep protocol-level and embedded payments knowledge not obvious from his corporate role. His background in electrical engineering and an MBA with distinction give him a rare blend of hardware-level understanding, product thinking and commercial acumen. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he consistently turns complex compliance and interoperability requirements into production-grade, auditable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General, With Distinction, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General, With Distinction at UCT Graduate School of BusinessUniversity of Johannesburg Hill High
English, Afrikaans, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
emv10
ffprobe8
displays8
chips7
framerate6
google-pay6
audio6
listbox6
i2c6
android6
kiosk6
windows6
ffmpeg6
esp325
hardware5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vicente-da-silva/dcemv
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
Open Source EMV Payments Stack
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
paymentsemv
vicente-da-silva/PowerDepot
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 days
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