My name is André Silva and I'm a Portuguese Software Engineer that lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
I wasn't always focused on the development world.
During high school I got the chance to intern at a consulting firm in my hometown, mainly working with setting up data centers and configuring network systems.
After high school, I went to college to take a Computer Science Bachelor's degree. During that first few months, I participated in a couple of hackathons and startup projects, primarily just for fun, but always with the goal in mind to build a curriculum and some professional experience.
During that time I started to discover the growing startup scene in Lisbon and during those summer vacations, I got myself an internship at one of those startups (which end up failing, as most of them do).
Going back to my 2nd year of college, I was offered to be part of Unbabel, one of the first Portuguese startups to enter Y-Combinator, which I have been working there ever since.
I consider myself to be a Backend Software Engineer, that dabbles in Frontend and is invested in the DevOps world. I like to understand complex problems and turn them into simple ones, figuring out the architecture of the whole system, from the user's point of view to the underlying stack.
I mostly develop web base applications or internal tools, but I'm also interested in the operational side of things like:
- automating manual tasks,
- building easy processes for people to follow,
- writing maintainable, modular software,
- and creating pleasant and clear documentation.
When I'm not working, I'm probably either cooking, watching tv shows, reading, writing on my blog or surfing.
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent