Rafael Ferreira is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems for global brands across e-commerce, fintech, and telecom. He specializes in Java and Spring Boot microservices, modern cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure), and fast event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ and Redis. Rafael has repeatedly delivered measurable impact—cutting batch processing from ~24 hours to under 10 minutes and leading zero-downtime migrations between Spring Boot major versions. He combines rigorous engineering practices (90%+ test coverage, clean code, SOLID) with pragmatic cost and latency optimizations that reduced infrastructure spend at major clients. Comfortable in distributed, cross-cultural teams, he thrives on exploring emerging languages and unconventional solutions (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python) to solve hard problems. Based in Portugal, he brings both hands-on delivery and architecture-level thinking across the full backend stack.
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