Simão Silva
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
email@simaosilva.com Simão Silva | Simons36 | simaosilva.com
About Me
Computer Science and Engineering student at Instituto Superior Técnico, intern at Card4B. Interest in Backend, Distributed Systems, DevOps and Data Science.
Education
Bsc. Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa2020 - 2024
Master's Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in IT Service Management and Cybersecurity
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa2023 - today
Experience
Accenture Portugal
Techonology Summer Intern
July 2024
I was integrated into the Data department, where I was responsible for developing a custom LLM-based chatbot application for internal usage, that communicated with OpenAI API, and had integrations with Jira and Confluence.
Card4B Systems
Backend Software Engineer Intern
November 2024 - Present
As part of my master’s thesis, I am currently an intern at Card4B, working on a Ticketing system for bank card payments in public transportation. Worked with technologies such as Java (Android), REST APIs, and Grafana, among others.
Projects
University Projects
- Microservices containerized Web Application | CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana
- Deployment & Benchmark of YugabyteDB on GCP, w/ Ansible & Terraform
- Event-driven Microservices platform | Kafka, Terraform, AWS, Quarkus
- Permissioned blockchain system w/ high dependability guarantees | Java
- E2E encrypted music streaming service | Java
Skills
- Programming
- C/C++JavaPythonC#SQLTypescriptHTML/CSS (basic)JavaScript (basic)Go (basic)
- OSs
- FedoraUbuntu/DebianWindows
- Tools & Software
- GitDockerGrafanaAnsibleTerraformGrpc and ProtobufVSCode / Android StudioGoogle Cloud (basic)AWS (EC2, RDS) (basic)Proxmox (basic)Kubernetes (basic)Kafka (basic)
- Frameworks
- .NETAndroid DevelopmentNestJSSpringboot (basic)Quarkus (basic)
Languages
Portuguese - Native
English - C1 Level
Certifications
Interests
Hobbies
Basketball Player
2015 - 2021- Played basketball at federate level for Física Torres Vedras