Rafael Iop is a back-end software engineer with over a decade in tech and eight years focused on server-side development for e-commerce and logistics. He designs and implements microservices using Node.js (Express, NestJS, Serverless) and PHP (Laravel), and is experienced with both relational and NoSQL datastores including PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and MongoDB. Rafael has hands-on AWS and GCP experience (Lambda, SQS/SNS, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions) and a track record of cost-optimizing systems—once cutting database costs by 50–70% by replacing Aurora with DynamoDB where appropriate. He contributes to architecture through spikes and design docs, mentors teammates via code review and pair programming, and thrives on translating business requirements into scalable, multitenant APIs documented with OpenAPI. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he blends startup experience (including time in a 500 Startups batch) with marketplace-scale engineering at Mercado Livre.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduação (incompleta), Sistemas para Internet, Graduação (incompleta), Sistemas para Internet at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Graduação, Sistemas de Informação, Graduação, Sistemas de Informação at UFN Universidade Franciscana
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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Rafael Iop - Back-end Software Engineer at Mercado Livre