About Me

I am a solution driven person and I am very sociable, but autonomous at work, where I like to work both individually or as part of a team. I am personally motivated with a strong focus on high-quality, efficiency and best practices. I am passionate about development and the software building process.

Contact Details

Mauro Silva
Zurich
Switzerland
mwlsilva@gmail.com

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Education

I.S.C.T.E. – Lisbon University Institute

Bsc in Computer Science & Business Management • 2006

ISCTE-IUL is one of the most prestigious Portuguese universities offering an exceptional variety of programmes, covering a wide range of study areas in all cycles of higher education.

Scrum Alliance

Certifcation in Scrum Master• 2014

Founded in 2001, Scrum Alliance® is the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community. We are a nonprofit association with more than 500,000 certified practitioners worldwide.

Cognizant

Certification in Digital 101• 2016

Certification in digitalization processes from a wide range going from business model to implementation and with the focus on the new ways to provide revenue and value-added oportunities.

Work

Cognizant

Tech Lead/Scrum Master • 2013 - Present

Working in multiple projects for International Wealth Management area. Leading innovation and digitalization projects delivering successful projects to multiple lines of business into streamlined and linear solutions.

Metacase

Senior Software Engineer• 2006 - 2013

Working on a number of projects to develop new products, implement continuous improvements and performance optimizations, an area in which I specialized, to the main product of the company.

Freelancer

Developer• 2003 - 2013

Working in multiple projects for multiple companies mostly web oriented development but also some stand alone solutions with the referred partners.

Awards

Certificate of Achievement

Cognizant • 2014

Individual Performance Award

Rising Star Achievement

Cognizant • 2017

Individual Performance Award

Skills

During a technical career there are too many tools and processes and frameworks and what really matters in my opinion is that we find agility enough to adapt to any scenario/toolchain available in the company and slowly if there's oportunity we can change it and improve it.

Some of the technologies/languages that were used meanwhile:

C# , Vb.Net , ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core 2.0

Windows Forms, ASP.net MVC, ASP.net Web Forms, WebAPI, HTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, VBScript, LINQ, T-SQL, Triggers, Stored Procedures, Razor, T4Templates, CSS, JSON, SignalR, jQuery, UML, Ajax, ORMs, PowerShell, SSIS.

OO Principles, MVC Design, RESTful Design, API development, IoC (Ninject), SVN, TFS, WebServices, Services, NUnit, NLog, Log4net, Control-M, AppDynamics.

MS Office, SOAP UI, Microsoft Visual Studio 2002 - 2015 (Team foundation server integrated), Git, Nuget, IIS 8, MySql 5.5, MySql Workbench, Microsoft SQLServer 2000/2005/2008R2/2012, Business Objects Crystal Reports, SSRS, Enterprise Architect, Jira, Service Now, ITSM, Atlassian Wiki, Gliffy, Visual Studio Teams.

Methodologies: Agile, Test Driven Development, SCRUM.

And many others that would make this list too extensive.

Client Testimonials

  • I worked with Mauro at Client location Switzerland. He is a very reliable and proactive solution engineer. As a project Manager, I always count on Mauro and he always able to deliver strong solutions under tight deadlines. He has the right attitude when it comes to troubleshoot any problem. He is definitely a big plus/an asset to any team.

    Anirban Mukherjee - Vice President at Credit Suisse

  • Mauro's excellent technical competence and high flexibility are completed by his humble persona. He has outstanding communication skills and stood out in his department by taking ownership and a mentoring role in several different projects. Mauro has excellent customer facing skills and the ability to advise the client at a high level. I have worked on several projects with Mauro together and would recommend him anytime.

    André Wolke - CEO & Co-founder Validity Labs AG, Blockchain Education for Enterprise - Founder Blockchain & Internet of Things School

  • I've enjoyed working together with Mauro on several projects. His openness, friendliness and positive attitude contribute to successful communication and cooperation in a multi-team project environment. Mauro displays a sharp sense of perception to given problems and requirements, and has the ability to develop solutions and explain them in both high-level and technical terminology. His close attention to detail can also be seen in the the quality of documentation he creates. Mauro has a proven skill set and would benefit any team he is in.

    Timothy Sorgen - .NET Platform Engineer and Deployment Manager

Get In Touch.

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