André Silva

• Developed high-performance cross-platform applications in C#, prioritizing maintainability and UX.

• Automated CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual testing time and accelerating deployment cycles.

• Integrated hardware APIs to enable advanced user feedback systems.

• Led project delivery by coordinating remote teams, mentoring developers, and resolving technical blockers.

• Developed 12 projects in 5 countries, in under 3 years of operation.

• Identified and engaged potential clients through traditional and alternative platforms, securing 3 consecutive long-term contracts over 3 years and establishing a strong market presence.

Sensei is a startup and the leading European provider of autonomous stores, specializing in AI and computer vision solutions.

• Led the development of containerized and decoupled microservices that ran on-site with a reduced memory footprint and CPU usage, enhancing system performance and scalability across multiple autonomous stores.

• Responsible for the development of a mission-critical message broker framework "Tako", deployed across 10 stores in 5 countries, totalling over 700 microservices per store. The framework provides publish-subscribe, event streaming, and client-server capabilities, addressing complex requirements for reliability and throughput. This framework integrates with monitoring and logging systems, providing real-time visibility into system performance.

• Implemented persistent message queues in core system components, ensuring a successful recovery in >90% of failure cases, significantly improving system resilience.

• Enhanced testing infrastructure by implementing sandbox environments for unit and integration tests, and conducted rigorous stress and reliability testing to ensure system stability.

• Devised and implemented load balancing mechanisms, reducing processing times by 66%, which greatly optimized overall system efficiency.

• Led weekly Python workshops for over 30 engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous learning across teams.

• Introduced and iterated on Scrum practices, improving team coordination, velocity, and overall project delivery efficiency.

• Led the adoption of company-wide code quality standards, driving consistency and maintainability across the engineering team.

• Developed microservices for BMW Group in an Agile environment, following common architectural and design patterns;

• Ensured software reliability and minimized production issues by implementing comprehensive unit, integration and end2end tests;

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, contributing to regular sprint planning, retrospectives and reviews, which improved project delivery consistency and quality.