Wilson Silva
Senior Software Engineer at Runware
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWilson Silva is a senior software engineer and pragmatic architect with 13 years of experience building and leading backend-first teams, currently driving engineering at Runware after steering technical strategy as Tech Lead & Staff Backend Engineer at Lavanda. He excels at turning ideas into production-grade systems—especially in Ruby on Rails—while championing standards, incident response, and developer workflows that reduce operational cost. Wilson thrives in collaborative, entrepreneurial environments where he’s accountable for outcomes and unafraid of the hard conversations that keep teams healthy. He experiments broadly in his spare time with languages like Elixir, Gleam, Solidity, Go and Flutter, applying lessons from those explorations to design clean, maintainable systems. Dual-citizen of Portugal and the UK, he’s open to relocation and brings a background advising and scaling engineering organisations for clients including FDJ, Superdrug, and Mindful Chef.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, cape verdean creole, Galician, Thai
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
ubuntu10
cpp10
ruby-application10
api10
html10
dependency-injection10
json-api10
nodejs10
speech-recognition10
loops10
ruby10
dry-rb10
data-mapping10
ddd10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wilsonsilva/nostr
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 68 pushes in 16 days
wilsonsilva/loqate
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022
API client for https://www.loqate.com/
Contributions:1 review, 144 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 9 months
api-clientapiloqate
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