Summary
Rafael Couto is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems, currently driving scalable, resilient solutions for Itaú Unibanco using C#, .NET and Python on AWS. He combines domain-driven design and Clean Architecture with hands-on expertise in containerization (ECS), serverless (Lambda), event-driven systems, Terraform IaC and observability (Datadog), focusing on security, performance and governance. Rafael has a strong background in high-throughput payment and antifraud platforms from Cielo, where he optimized APIs and implemented monitoring at p95/p99 levels, and earlier experience in operations and electronics that informs his pragmatic approach to reliability. Comfortable in agile, multidisciplinary teams, he actively participates in architectural decisions, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines to deliver measurable business impact. An unusual asset is his blend of field-level electronics training and formal systems development education, which lends him a practical systems-thinking perspective rarely found in purely software-trained engineers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico, Eletrônica, Técnico, Eletrônica at Senai São Paulo
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo