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Hi, my name is

Hugo

Silva

I'm a Software Engineer @SWISS 🇨🇭✈️

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About Me

Hi, I'm Hugo! I'm a Software Engineer based in Switzerland 🇨🇭 with a passion for technology.

I love learning new things and evolving with the projects I participate in. I'm very attentive to the new tendencies and innovations in technology. When offline, I love to play piano and hike ⛰️😁

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Experience & Events

2019 - May 2024Worked at Idryl Technologies as a Software Engineer
May 2024 - NowStarted working as a Software Engineer at SWISS International Air Lines Ltd. 🇨🇭✈️

Achievements @SWISS 🇨🇭✈️

  • • Built and maintained scalable .NET microservices using C#, Docker, K8s and Elastic contributing to increased reliability and maintainability across internal platforms
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  • • Developed Terraform release pipelines in Azure DevOps, including the setup of a secure service principal with federated credentials and configuration of service connections to enable seamless infrastructure deployments.
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  • • Enhanced cloud security by implementing private endpoints across all key Azure resources, ensuring internal-only access and reducing exposure to public networks.
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  • • Designed and developed a scalable LLM service for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases, supporting multiple projects and models (e.g., GPT-4o, text-embedding-3-large). Integrated with Azure AI Search to enable vector, hybrid, and semantic hybrid search capabilities.
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  • • Served as Security Champion, driving adoption of secure development practices and overseeing integration of CheckmarxOne and SonarQube into pipelines; Eliminated 100+ critical vulnerabilities in under a month and setting a company-wide benchmark as the first and most advanced security adopter 🚀.
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  • • Designed and contributed to key Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that guided system design and ensured alignment with technical and business goals.
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  • • Delivered multiple townhall presentations to an audience of 300+ employees, effectively promoting our team's achievements and showcasing the platform's capabilities.
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  • • 1st Place🥇 at Lufthansa Group Agentic AI Hackathon with a "RetentionAI Solution"

Education

2014English C1+ certification at the British Institute in Braga
2021Completed my Master's in Engineering and Management of Information Systems at University of Minho with a grade of 19 out of 20. "Management and Analysis Platform for Data Based in Blockchain Technology"
Published the Article "Modular Blockchain Implementation in Intensive Medicine"

Things I ❤

Software Engineering 💻, Piano & Sports 🎾

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