Alexandre Rodrigues
Software Engineer at Cisco
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Rodrigues is a Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and distributed services, currently based in Stockholm and working at Cisco. He began in C# and service middleware but gravitated toward concurrency and functional programming, becoming an experienced Erlang developer after exploring Scala, Haskell and Erlang’s actor-model strengths. Alexandre has applied this expertise at companies like Klarna, Kivra and [24]7.ai, working on payment flows, identity/OAuth systems and high-throughput bidding engines. He contributes to core open-source projects such as Erlang/OTP—improving SSH server behavior and protocol tests—showing a knack for pragmatic fixes in foundational infrastructure. Known for preferring simple, elegant solutions to complex problems, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a teaching mindset that helps teams adopt safer concurrency patterns.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Bologna), Computer and Software Engineering, BEng (Bologna), Computer and Software Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (10)
test-automation10
protocols10
erlang10
implement10
ssh10
testing10
user-authentication9
authentication9
openssh9
sftp8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erlang/otp
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 10 PRs, 58 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre focused on enhancing the Erlang/OTP project's SSH functionality. Their contributions included addressing SSH protocol errors related to user authentication banners and implementing a banner function for server-side banners. The user also added protocol tests to verify the behavior of the banner function and compatibility with OpenSSH. Furthermore, they fixed a specification issue in the `ssh_sftp:start_channel/2` function.
gleamerlangbeamerlang-otpelixir
alexandrejbr/WebFrameworksBenchmarks
May 2014 - May 2019
Web frameworks benchmarks
Contributions:50 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
dev-serverrapid-prototypingbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
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