{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Pedro Silva",
    "label": "Senior Engineering Manager — Data & AI Platforms",
    "image": "",
    "email": "psilva+resume@pedrosilva.pt",
    "url": "https://pedrosilva.pt/resume",
    "summary": "I lead engineering teams building the data and AI platform foundations that make analytics, machine learning, and AI work reliably in practice. My background spans computational research — ML at INESC Porto, large-scale bioinformatics pipelines at UC Berkeley — through applied data science and software engineering to platform and people leadership. My focus is on closing the gap between promising prototype and reliable operational system, at scale and under real engineering constraints.",
    "location": {
      "countryCode": "NL"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "pedrosilva2",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrosilva2"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Booking.com",
      "position": "Senior Engineering Manager",
      "url": "https://booking.com",
      "startDate": "2022-03-01",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Data and AI Platform — Central Technology",
      "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead a large-scale engineering organization spanning data and AI platform teams, with direct reports including engineering managers and principal engineers.",
        "Directed the migration of Booking.com's foundational data infrastructure — ingest, storage, compute, and catalog — from on-premises Hadoop to AWS.",
        "Designed and executed compute and storage optimization across the company's AWS footprint.",
        "Define engineering standards, operating model, and architectural direction across federated platform teams serving analytics, ML, and AI consumers across the company.",
        "Responsible for organizational design, hiring, performance management, and leadership development at organizational scale.",
        "Managed vendor procurement including contractor engagements, software licensing, and SoW drafting and negotiation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Booking.com",
      "position": "Engineering Manager",
      "url": "https://booking.com",
      "startDate": "2019-11-01",
      "endDate": "2022-02-01",
      "summary": "Big Data Platform; Data Workflows and Tools",
      "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
      "highlights": [
        "Led teams responsible for core data pipeline infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and internal tooling serving ML and analytics consumers across the company.",
        "Drove reliability, scalability, and governance improvements to data infrastructure under rapid adoption growth.",
        "Built and scaled teams through hiring and organizational design."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Booking.com",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "url": "https://booking.com",
      "startDate": "2018-04-01",
      "endDate": "2021-05-01",
      "summary": "Big Data Infrastructure; Data Workflows and Tools",
      "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed and implemented core data infrastructure components: ingestion pipelines, distributed processing frameworks, and storage systems at petabyte scale.",
        "Led technical delivery on high-impact data platform initiatives alongside engineering management responsibilities."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Booking.com",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "url": "https://booking.com",
      "startDate": "2016-07-01",
      "endDate": "2018-04-01",
      "summary": "Big Data Infrastructure",
      "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed and maintained large-scale data processing systems on Hadoop and Spark infrastructure."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Booking.com",
      "position": "Data Scientist",
      "url": "https://booking.com",
      "startDate": "2013-09-01",
      "endDate": "2016-07-01",
      "summary": "Frontend analytics and applied modeling",
      "highlights": [
        "Built and deployed statistical models and analytical pipelines supporting product and business decisions.",
        "Applied machine learning methods to frontend analytics and behavioral data at scale."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "INESC Porto",
      "position": "Researcher",
      "startDate": "2011-03-01",
      "endDate": "2013-08-01",
      "summary": "Doctoral research in machine learning, NLP, and music information retrieval",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed, developed, and published peer-reviewed open-source software for machine learning, natural language processing, and music information retrieval.",
        "Research scope: classification, sequence modeling, and perceptual modeling of musical structure."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "UC Berkeley",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2008-08-01",
      "endDate": "2011-03-01",
      "location": "Berkeley, California, USA",
      "summary": "Large-scale bioinformatics analysis pipelines",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed and applied open-source software for high-throughput bioinformatics sequencing data analysis pipelines.",
        "Contributed to genome-wide DNA methylation research resulting in multiple peer-reviewed publications."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Various clients",
      "position": "Freelance Developer",
      "startDate": "2006-01-01",
      "endDate": "2011-12-31",
      "summary": "Applied modeling and web development",
      "highlights": [
        "Built predictive models for customer attrition, auction outcomes, and real-estate market state inference.",
        "Delivered web backend systems and frontend usability improvements."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto",
      "area": "Computer Engineering",
      "studyType": "PhD program (incomplete — withdrew after two years to join industry)",
      "startDate": "2011-01-01",
      "endDate": "2013-08-01"
    },
    {
      "institution": "San Francisco State University",
      "area": "Radio and Television Broadcasting Technology",
      "studyType": "Master of Arts (M.A.)",
      "startDate": "2006-01-01",
      "endDate": "2010-12-31"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Middlesex University",
      "area": "Audio Engineering",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)",
      "startDate": "2001-01-01",
      "endDate": "2005-12-31"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)",
      "area": "Business Administration",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) — partial",
      "startDate": "1998-01-01",
      "endDate": "2001-12-31"
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Genome-wide evolutionary analysis of eukaryotic DNA methylation",
      "publisher": "Science",
      "releaseDate": "2010",
      "url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Genome-wide+evolutionary+analysis+of+eukaryotic+DNA+methylation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Genome-wide demethylation of Arabidopsis endosperm",
      "publisher": "Science",
      "releaseDate": "2009",
      "url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Genome-wide+demethylation+of+Arabidopsis+endosperm"
    },
    {
      "name": "Local DNA hypomethylation activates genes in rice endosperm",
      "publisher": "PNAS",
      "releaseDate": "2010",
      "url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Local+DNA+hypomethylation+activates+genes+in+rice+endosperm"
    },
    {
      "name": "Regulation of imprinted gene expression in Arabidopsis endosperm",
      "publisher": "PNAS",
      "releaseDate": "2011",
      "url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Regulation+of+imprinted+gene+expression+in+Arabidopsis+endosperm"
    },
    {
      "name": "The effect of microtiming deviations on the perception of groove in short rhythms",
      "publisher": "Music Perception",
      "releaseDate": "2012",
      "url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effect+of+microtiming+deviations+perception+groove+short+rhythms"
    },
    {
      "name": "Classification, segmentation and chronological prediction of cinematic sound",
      "publisher": "ICMLA",
      "releaseDate": "2012",
      "url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Classification+segmentation+chronological+prediction+cinematic+sound"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Machine Learning & AI",
      "keywords": ["scikit-learn", "statistical modeling", "NLP", "applied ML", "ML platform design", "model lifecycle management"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Data Engineering",
      "keywords": ["Apache Spark", "Hadoop", "Snowflake", "SQL", "Kubernetes", "Terraform", "Kubeflow", "FinOps", "data pipeline design", "data governance"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Data & ML Ops, Platform Architecture",
      "keywords": ["data and ML ops frameworks", "platform architecture", "compute optimization", "AWS (S3, EKS)", "reference architecture definition"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Engineering Leadership",
      "keywords": ["large-scale migrations and replatforming", "operating model design", "organizational design", "performance management", "cross-directorate alignment", "vendor procurement", "contract management"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Programming",
      "keywords": ["Python", "Java", "SQL", "C", "Clojure", "Prolog", "Ruby", "Rust", "Go"]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Portuguese",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Full professional"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "LXMLS 2013 Grant — Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School"
    },
    {
      "title": "R&D Grant — INESC Porto doctoral research"
    }
  ]
}