Summary
Rafael Casal is a proactive technical leader with 13 years of experience building and maintaining enterprise-grade software, currently serving as Jefe Técnico at Mercury TFS (PagoNxt) in A Coruña. He has led and mentored teams up to seven engineers, driving architecture decisions for microservices-based banking and trade systems using Java, Spring, Hibernate and ExtJS. Rafael pairs hands-on development and production support experience with a track record in customs and logistics software, integrating middleware like IBM MQ and deployment tooling such as Jenkins and SVN. Passionate about embedded systems and microcontroller development, he brings a hardware-oriented mindset to large-scale backend projects. Comfortable working across cultures and environments, he also has experience coordinating volunteer tech initiatives—managing recycling and refurbishment programs at Universidad da Coruña. Always learning, he aims to broaden his skill set with new technologies and methodologies while keeping delivery and team growth at the center.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieria en Informática, Informática, Ingenieria en Informática, Informática at Universidad de A Coruna
Galician, Spanish, English