Jose Rodriguez
Senior Backend Engineer at SoSafe
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJose Rodriguez is a Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience designing serverless, event-driven systems and leading teams to deliver scalable cloud-native products. Based in Porto, he has built high-throughput horticultural intelligence platforms that ingest millions of sensor datapoints daily using AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis and Timestream, and has hands-on experience with Terraform, Bedrock, Glue and SageMaker. He combines engineering leadership—mentoring developers, defining scope and reviewing PRs—with practical delivery, from building WhatsApp LLM chatbots to automating mobile releases via CI/CD pipelines. An active open-source contributor, Jose has improved UI and backend features in the widely used Open edX projects, demonstrating fluency across mobile and server codebases. Outside work he’s a Mexican who loves spicy food, Sci‑Fi/Fantasy and action RPGs, a background that fuels a practical, playful approach to solving complex problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Software Engineer, Bachelor of Computer Science Software Engineer at Tecnológico de MonterreyBachelor of Computer Science Software Engineer, Bachelor of Computer Science Software Engineer at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
ios10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
user-interface10
rest-api10
swift10
testing9
data-service9
webservice9
pytest9
ui-design9
backend9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/edx-app-ios
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
The Open edX mobile app for iOS!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:16 commits, 43 PRs, 135 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributed to the iOS mobile application, making several changes focused on UI and feature enhancements. They removed background images from UI elements, integrated the use of `RouterEnvironment` for styling, and implemented an "invitation only" button on the course detail view. Additionally, the user addressed layout issues within the video block and corrected the tint color for UIToolbar elements, signifying a focus on improving the application's visual presentation and functionality.
edxmobile-appswiftiosopen-edx
openedx/edx-platform
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 26 PRs, 111 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributed to the Open edX platform by adding and modifying features related to course availability, password recovery, and course information display. Their work involved adding a configuration flag for mobile course availability, implementing a password recovery endpoint, and customizing the course info title display. The user also touched on various test files, ensuring the implemented features are tested appropriately.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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