Rafael Cidade
Senior Backend Engineer at Motorway
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRafael Cidade is a Senior Backend Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience combining rigorous academic research and practical software delivery. He holds a D.Sc. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and spent part of his doctorate researching dynamic fracture of composites at the University of Porto, bringing a deep simulation and data-analysis mindset to engineering problems. As a co-founder of a materials-tech startup he built image-processing tools to ASTM standards and led early industrial deployments, and more recently has been driving backend systems at Motorway after four years at Pillar. Rafael’s background in experimental testing and custom modelling routines informs a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to backend engineering and product integration. He is comfortable bridging research, embedded data workflows and production services, often translating complex physical-science problems into reliable software solutions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Split-site doctorate, Composite Materials, Split-site doctorate, Composite Materials at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Materials Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (35)
sdk10
swap9
blockchain9
ethereum9
frontend9
composite8
chain7
backend7
react7
dex7
computational-geometry6
jpeg6
latex6
dpi6
css6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pillarwallet/blockchain-explorer-sdk
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:21 PRs, 33 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 4 months
rafaelcidade/compositeslib
Mar 2012 - Aug 2021
a python library for composite materials
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 9 years 6 months
compositepython-librarypython
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