Rafael Amaral
Staff Software Engineer at LeoVegas Group
Spain
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Top SchoolRafael Amaral is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and secure architectures across fintech, media and legal-tech domains. He has led teams and core components at Sky/LeoVegas and designed SOA/microservices platforms using Java, Scala, Kafka and cloud providers (GCP/AWS), frequently acting as technical reference, interviewer and cross-team collaborator. His background spans hands-on systems administration to research in security and early-warning systems, giving him a rare blend of operational insight and formal research experience. Known for introducing open-source tooling and automating complex workflows (including reverse-engineering digital signature flows for courts), he combines pragmatic engineering with strong interest in networking and info security. Based in Lisbon, he brings both leadership and deep implementation muscle across backend, messaging and cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IT - Vocational Education, IT - Vocational Education at CedaspyB.S. Computer Science High-Performance Computing and Distributed Systems, B.S. Computer Science High-Performance Computing and Distributed Systems at Federal University of Technology - ParanaTechnologist Degree in System Analysis and Development, Technologist Degree in System Analysis and Development at Universidade Positivo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (103)
django9
bootstrap9
django-rest-framework9
twitter8
whatsapp8
backend8
databases8
react8
webpack8
static-site8
nodejs8
discovery-service7
docker-compose7
laravel7
cross-language7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelsilverioit/stundb
Nov 2023 - Jan 2026
A stunning distributed key-value database
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 118 PRs in 2 years 2 months
key-value-databasecachecucumberdatabasegherkin
oystr-foss/oxy-service
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
oxy is a discovery/registry service that allows us to keep track of dynamic services added to our infrastructure and their status through regular health checks. e.g.: dynamic proxy servers.
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 8 months
dynamic-proxyakkadiscovery-servicejavaoystr
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