Rafael Lisboa
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Nubank
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRafael Lisboa is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and growing engineering teams, currently based in Berlin and leading technical work at Nubank. He blends functional programming (Clojure/ClojureScript) with cloud-native infrastructure—Kafka, Kubernetes, Datomic, DynamoDB, Redis and AWS—to simplify complex distributed problems into pragmatic solutions. Rafael has moved through hands-on engineering to management and back to senior technical leadership, focusing on hiring diverse talent and nurturing healthy engineering culture while steering product success. He is comfortable across mobile stacks (React Native, Kotlin, Swift, Flutter) and backend systems, which lets him bridge product, platform and client-facing concerns. Colleagues know him for turning complexity into simplicity and for actively learning how to become a better leader and maker.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Unifesp - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German
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Github contributions (5)
rafaelzlisboa/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 9 years 1 month
rafaelzlisboa/leadership
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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