Salvador Silva

About me

Hey, I am a Backend Software Engineer at Worten, one of the leading tech and electronics retailers in Portugal and Spain.

I enjoy tackling and designing scalable solutions for complex problems while collaborating with others to exchange ideas and create effective outcomes.

I’m driven by curiosity and a passion for continuous improvement.

In my free time, you’ll find me lifting weights or getting my ass kicked in Muay Thai.

Experience & Education

1. 2023 — PRESENT

   

   Software Engineer @ Worten (Outsourced by Adentis)

   Design, develop and maintain Worten’s backend microservices that support over 4 million monthly users, 200k daily active customers and 2000 sellers, handling millions of offers and transactions

   • Led a development initiative, collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather and align requirements, delivering 25% ahead of schedule.
   • Designed and implemented a document generation service to provide sellers with detailed payout information, reducing invoice support tickets by 89% within a year.
   • Implemented an end-to-end monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana to track metrics for PostgreSQL, Kafka, RESTful APIs, and Kubernetes, increasing observability coverage by 70%.

   • Scala

   • Akka

   • Lagom

   • Play

   • Kafka

   • PostgreSQL

   • Couchbase

   • ElasticSearch

   • AWS

   • Kubernetes

   • Terraform

2. 2022 — 2023

   

   Software Development Internship @ Capgemini

   Conducted validations and tests on key components of the IPQ (Portuguese Institute for Quality) website, ensuring that components met quality standards and performed reliably.

   • Completed the Java & Cloud Academy with an average score of 92%, a series of structured training programs covering C#, Java, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, and cloud development.
   • Earned Microsoft Azure Fundamentals and Azure Developer Associate certifications, building a strong foundation in cloud technologies.

   • HTML

   • CSS

   • Bootstrap

   • C#

   • Java

   • PL/SQL

   • .NET

   • Microsoft Azure

3. 2020 — 2023

   

   Computer Engineering Bachelor's Degree @ ISCTE

   Successfully balanced the demands of a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering at ISCTE while working part-time and full-time throughout the course of the degree.

   • Awarded the ISTA Top Talent Award (Top 10%).
   • Worked part-time and full-time throughout the course of the degree.

   • Scala

   • Java

   • C

   • HTML

   • CSS

   • Javascript

   • Python

   • PHP

   • Assembly

   • Shell Script

   • PostgreSQL

   • Cassandra

Projects

FireFight

A turn-based fire-fighting game, leveraging object-oriented programming principles.



Octrees

A Scala application to load and visualize graphical models from a text file using View Frustum Culling with Octrees.



Agar.cdp

A simplified version of the popular Agar.io game, implementing concurrent and distributed programming concepts.



Sneaker Store

An online store for managing rare and exclusive sneakers.



BubbleShellSort

A linear-time sorting algorithm implemented using Shellsort on a linked list, based on a variant of the Bubblesort algorithm.



ScheduleManager

A schedule management platform for ISCTE students, developed to organize academic timetables.