Carlos Vilhena
Chief Technology Officer at IDlayr
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Vilhena is a seasoned technology and product leader with 14 years of hands-on engineering and executive experience, now serving as CTO at IDlayr in Porto. He has scaled engineering organisations and product teams across fintech and SaaS, delivering platform re‑builds, PCI-DSS certification, and security-by-design practices while growing engineering hubs in Porto. A pragmatic architect and operator, Carlos has led high‑availability voice and payments platforms, negotiated technical scopes during asset sales, and created career frameworks that lift engineering maturity. He remains an active open-source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, notably expanding Octokit’s Git refs support and improving security and OAuth flows in doorkeeper and two-factor authentication tooling. Comfortable switching between code and strategy, he blends startup founder grit with enterprise delivery discipline and a track record of translating complex regulatory and operational constraints into dependable products.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
1st year of MSc Computing Science, 1st year of MSc Computing Science at Universidade do Minho2nd year of Msc Computing Science - Formal Methods, 2nd year of Msc Computing Science - Formal Methods at Engineering College of Aarhus
Github Skills (30)
data-migration10
ruby-rails10
devise10
octokit10
authorizations10
postgresql10
apidoc10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
ruby10
api10
github-api10
authorization10
activerecord10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 21 PRs, 60 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the back-end logic and data migrations within the Whitehall repository, a platform for publishing government content. Their work included data migrations to modify database entries, specifically addressing issues with collection pages and office slugs. Additionally, the user was involved in migrating the people index page and implementing tracking for user clicks on policy area and finder pages, demonstrating a focus on improving data integrity and user experience. The user also made changes related to the handling of files and the publishing of content, by using rake tasks and modifying uploader functionality.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
Houdini/two_factor_authentication
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Two factor authentication extension for Devise
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the core logic and structure of a two-factor authentication extension for Devise. They addressed deprecation warnings related to ActiveSupport::Concern and refactored the schema. The user implemented generators for the extension, including ActiveRecord migrations, and modified the controllers. This work focused on integrating the two-factor authentication feature into a Rails application.
two-factor-authentication
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