Rafael Albuquerque is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining web applications across startups and scale-ups, currently shipping features at PandaDoc from Lisbon. He has a strong Rails background, spent quality time in Elixir ecosystems, and more recently has been "dealing with snakes" — indicating a move into Python work. Rafael’s career shows stability and growth through multi-year tenures at Sherpany and roles at Talkdesk and Impraise, blending backend craftsmanship with hands-on problem fixing. Known for stepping into legacy codebases and improving reliability, he brings practical engineering judgment and a preference for shipping resilient, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Fundação Escola Profissional de Setúbal
Contributions:154 commits, 105 pushes in 7 years 9 months
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Rafael Albuquerque - Software Engineer at PandaDoc