Sidnei da Silva

Current

Landscape Software Engineer at Canonical Ltd.
Member at Associação Python Brasil
Technical Lead and Product Engineer at Enfold Systems, Inc.

Software Developer at Plone
Owner at X3ng Web Technology

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Past

Contractor at Zope Corporation
Software Engineer at Clearnoodle LLC.
Technical Lead at X3ng Web Technology

Systems Administrator at Pense Informática

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Education

Universidade de Caxias do Sul

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Sidnei da Silva’s Summary

Product Design and Development, Application Design an Development with focus on web-based applications, Systems Administration. Interested in using, developing and perfecting all forms of techology. Special interest in distributed applications and parallel programming.

Sidnei da Silva’s Specialties:

Client-server architecture, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming, distributed applications.

Sidnei da Silva’s Experience

Landscape Software Engineer

Canonical Ltd.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Member

Associação Python Brasil

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)
Technical Lead and Product Engineer

Enfold Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

Designed and executed several applications based on the Plone CMS for clients like Oxfam America, University of Louisville and some Fortune-100 companies. Helped design and develop commercial products for the Windows platform. Acquired experience with C programming and COM.
Software Developer

Plone

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)

Created tools and procedures for internationalization of the Plone CMS, bootstrapped the first translation team. Participated in active planning of several features. Improved and maintained the WebDAV support.
Owner

X3ng Web Technology

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)
Contractor

Zope Corporation

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
Software Engineer

Clearnoodle LLC.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 10 months)

Designed applications based on the Plone CMS and the, at the time experimental, Zope 3. Developed a custom web-based application for Sample Management for a large research lab based near San Antonio, TX.
Technical Lead

X3ng Web Technology

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

First contact with the Python programming language and the Zope application server. Deployed a custom Zope-based website for Universidade de Caxias do Sul, which is still online as of April, 2007 at http://www.ucs.br.
Systems Administrator

Pense Informática

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 2 months)

First contact with Linux and Mac OS 9. Acquired skills in Systems Administration and Web Development (PHP and MySQL). Migrated several services from NT 4 to Linux. Implemented Radius authentication and related accounting applications. Developed some web-based applications for internal management.