About me

Hi, my name is Hugo Silva and I'm a product engineer from Lisbon. I love building great software, and I love it even more when it's intuitive to use.

I started coding at 12. My first project was a SpongeBob game with Pac-Man style gameplay and it had The Real Slim Shady looping in the background. It was a mess, but the moment it ran and I could actually play it, my brain lit up. It never turned off after that.

I’ve been building software professionally for more than 15 years and during that this I had a great opportunity to play a startup co-founder. I've seen it grow from a hand of people to more than 300. Scaling a service to handle millions of translations per month, and experience all the rollercoasters of managing a business.

When I'm not in front of a screen, you can find me tending the garden, messing around with a craft I don’t actually know how to do, or hanging out with my family and friends.