João Silva Email & Phone Number

Porto, Pt

Porto, Portugal

Porto, Portugal

I served as the Engineering Manager, responsible for leading and scaling a high-performing, cross-functional team in a fast-paced and transformative environment. My primary focus was to drive the successful delivery of a new, high-impact product while ensuring the team's growth and development. The team managed both front-end and back-end responsibilities, handling the full development lifecycle of critical features. In addition, we owned the Identity and Access Management (IAM) function for the entire organization, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant access controls.

As an Engineer Lead (Manager) at Farfetch, I oversee a multidisciplinary team responsible for enhancing the search functionality on the platform. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies, we optimize the user experience by fine-tuning search results and enabling seamless navigation.Key Responsibilities:- Mentor team members, conduct code reviews, and facilitate knowledge sharing to ensure high-quality codebase and skill growth. - Responsible for onboarding new team members, guiding career progression and conducting feedback and performance reviews including salary negotiation. - Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers, fostering collaboration and innovation.Architect, design, and implement search solutions using C# .NET, Python, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Vespa, Kafka, Kubernetes and Jenkins.- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into initiatives. - Drive performance improvements by optimizing query processing, data retrieval, and indexing techniques.- Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies, applying best practices to continuously improve search capabilities.Skills:Proficiency in C# .NETElasticSearchCassandraVespaKafkaKubernetesJenkinsJiraStrong problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of search algorithms and data structures.Excellent leadership and communication skills to guide the team and collaborate effectively.Proven track record in architecting scalable and high-performance search solutions.Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.

Porto Area, Portugal

My role on the Farfetch search team involves working with several key technologies to achieve the main goal of presenting products to end users effectively.Technologies used:C# .NETElasticSearchCassandraKafkaKubernetesJenkinsUsed also Confluence and Jira to manage the sprints.These technologies, when used together, create a robust and efficient search system that can deliver a smooth and personalized shopping experience for Farfetch users. My involves developing, optimizing, and maintaining components of this system, ensuring that users can easily find the products they're interested in.

Porto Area, Portugal

During this period at Celfocus I was actively involved in a development project to migrate an app used to managing Vodafone's IT infrastructure.After the migration, it will extend its scope to encompass the entire Vodafone Portugal infrastructure. The initial phase of this project was concluded in March 2018 with a successful launch in the production environment.This migration entails a shift in technology from AngularJS and C# to Vue.js and Java 8.My core responsibilities within this project encompass database modeling, development of functionalities (both on the back-end and front-end), and configuration of the application's infrastructure. Simultaneously, I was engaged in mentoring junior colleagues within the organization, facilitating their integration and professional growth.The key technologies utilized in this project include: Java EE Spring Hibernate JavaScript Redis Oracle SQL Oracle Weblogic Oracle HTTP Server Vue.js Unix Jenkins

Porto Area, Portugal

Worked on the 2nd/3rd line PPV/VFE/OSS/SMART Support team.Responsible for the support of Vodafone PT PPV (Portal Parceiros Vodafone), a major applicationused in the Vodafone dealers stores and VFE (Vodafone Front End), used in Vodafone official stores.Smart and OSS are smaller applications used by Vodafone Engineering department to manageservice orders and access points.Also a part of Celfocus Omnichannel Product Support team (Vodafone Ireland and Dubai).Some of the key responsibilities were:- Issue analyses, code analyses and if needed the respective code fixing;- KPI's reports and Service Requests, 24/7 Call Support;- Maintenance and Deploy cycle of the Acceptance and Production environments.- Proactive maintenance, and monitoring (Application and Infrastructure) of the production systems.- Minor features development.Main technologies used:Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, Redis, Oracle SQL, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Http Server,ExtJS, Nagios, Unix, Jenkins CI, scripting languages, ITIL incident managing best practices.

Porto Area, Portugal

Dreamo, Porto (Portugal)Worked on a team responsible for the development of new functionalities for three web applications:-Energy management.-Mettings management.-Maintenance management.The main application was an energy management app. This application was used for big companiesto understand where they are spending money with consumptions and what they can do to lower theenergy consumption costs.The meeting management application provides a set of tools to manage minutes, participants, topicsand topics that transcend for upcoming meetings.The maintenance management application was used to manage all kinds of industrial machinerymaintenance life cycle.Some of the key responsibilities were:- database modelling.- functionalities development (back-end / front-end).- requirements definition.Main technologies used:SQL Server, C#, ASP .net, JavaScript, Microsoft Sharepoint.

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto (Portugal)The scope of this scholarship was the development of an Electric Energy management application.Some of the key responsibilities were:- database modelling.- functionalities development (back-end / front-end).Main technologies used:SQL Server, C#, ASP .net, JavaScript, Microsoft Sharepoint.

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, B

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