Rafael De Lucena Valle is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, with 14+ years of experience building performant, production-ready systems. He has progressed through backend roles at Loadsmart and long-term consultancy work via his own firm flctr, combining startup velocity with disciplined engineering. Rafael’s background spans embedded systems, IoT mesh networking and low-level optimizations—skills he applied to speed-critical projects and even vectorized WebM work on POWERPC. He’s delivered dramatic latency improvements (from minutes to microseconds) and built test and CI infrastructures that hardened complex systems. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, containerized backends and distributed architectures, he bridges firmware-to-cloud concerns when systems require end-to-end thinking. Known for turning research-grade prototypes into reliable services, he brings both hands-on implementation and architectural judgment to solve tricky performance and integration challenges.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, Bachelor of Computer Science, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
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Rafael De Lucena Valle - Senior Backend Engineer at flctr