William Vigolo da Silva

Software Engineer

At Sinara, I'm working on software for financial organisations, particularly trading platforms and handling market data.

• Developed a multicast market data feed handler (C#)

  • Implemented decoding, processing, and storage of the binary data feed
  • Created an expansive automated unit and integration test suite
  • Created tools to support development and testing, including a market data emulator that could simulate different scenarios, and market data visualiser

• Worked on an in-house trading platform, SinaraTLC (C#)

  • Designed and implemented new microservice components
  • Extended functionality of the platform's matching engine
  • Added new features to and improved the web frontend
  • Improved project automation, improving the developer experience

• Developed a trading platform for the London Metal Exchange as part of a technology modernisation project (C++, Java, Python)

  • Assisted in the design and implementation of new components to integrate the platform with other systems within the exchange with Apache Kafka
  • Worked on resiliency features for new components
  • Applied changes to existing trading platform components to adapt them to the LME's commodities market
  • Improved the existing build environment and development experience
  • Introduced development tools for catching problems in code, and fixed issues that were highlighted
  • Improved development tools, including a FIX trading client

• Designed, implemented, and executed automated unit and integration tests, as well as quality assurance tests

• Wrote technical documentation to assist other developers, and user documentation intended for users and administrators

Game Programmer (Student Placement)

As a developer at Feral I worked on bringing more games to macOS and iOS.

• Delivered the bulk of the 64-bit port of Total War: Shogun 2 for macOS, with similar patches used to later port other games in the franchise

• Assisted the release of Tropico for mobile, primarily working on the touch camera controls and improving performance

• Was heavily involved in the development of Company of Heroes for iPad, implementing many of the controls and UI changes needed to bring the game to touchscreens

I jumped into several large codebases - including multiple game engines - that were originally developed with Windows as the target platform. I learned how to pick up new projects and explore and understand them, being able to quickly start fixing bugs and implementing new features.

Using C++ throughout my placement earned me a deeper understanding of the language, as I debugged and fixed cross-platform bugs including undefined behaviour.
To support development, I wrote a tools and libraries, including a generic library for real-time strategy touch camera controls which was used in both Tropico and Company of Heroes ports.

Being the main IDE for Apple platforms, I used Xcode throughout my placement, and also made extensive use of LLDB to debug games and fix obscure bugs.

BSc Hons Computer Science with Year in Industry

Graduated: 24th July 2020, first class Year averages: 1st: 88%, 2nd: 80.3%, 4th: 76.4%
Dissertation project: Mining and analysing public government data of investment into research & innovation, applying some network and data analysis techniques to explore relationships and collect statistics.

Some exam results I'm proud of:

• Programming Paradigms • 99% As an introduction to the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, I used Java to make a simple card-matching game, and Haskell to make simple but expressive programs
• Programming & Algorithms • 94% I learnt the usage of pointers and manual memory management through learning C, as well as a variety of data structures and algorithms

Volunteer

I worked with CoderDojo at an event that introduced young people to technology and software development.
I supported attendees who learned about programming with Scratch and the BBC micro:bit, as well as web design using HTML & CSS.