Rafael Afonso
Java Backend Developer at Decskill
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Afonso is a seasoned Java backend developer with over 16 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise systems across telecommunications, healthcare, automotive and government sectors. He specializes in Java 8–17, Spring Boot and microservices, and pairs deep database experience (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) with practical DevOps skills in Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins. Recent work includes cloud-native patterns, REST/SOAP integration layers and internal generative AI tools that bridge model providers via WebSockets, showing a pragmatic interest in AI-assisted developer productivity. Comfortable mentoring junior engineers and improving test coverage with JUnit/Mockito, he repeatedly delivers reliable solutions for high-stakes, regulated domains. Based in Porto, Portugal, he combines a physics background with a long track record of adapting legacy platforms to modern architectures and is actively deepening his AWS and generative AI expertise.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV, English for Academic Purposes, Certificate IV, English for Academic Purposes at TAFE NSWBachelor of Physics, Physics, Bachelor of Physics, Physics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
jvm10
scalafx10
javafx10
rio10
scala10
projeto10
sbt9
javascript7
css7
recursion6
primefaces6
kotlin6
overflow6
tornadofx6
multithreading6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rafonso/ktsorter
Jan 2020 - Dec 2025
Implementation of sorting alghoritms using Kotin and JavaFX.
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
kotinsortingkotlintornadofxjavafx
rafonso/KtLogistic
Mar 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:81 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
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