Summary
Rafael Matito is a Backend Architect with over 12 years of hands-on experience and 20+ years building production systems, specializing in PHP/Symfony and increasingly in Go. He currently leads the design and implementation of a microservices platform at Quadrant TravelTech, applying Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, Event Sourcing and event-driven patterns to achieve resilient, decoupled systems. Previously he served as CTO at Percentil and Head of Architecture at Docline, driving monolith-to-microservices migrations while balancing BAU stability and strategic evolution. Rafael combines strong operational discipline (TDD, SOLID, high-traffic REST APIs) with pragmatic leadership across engineering teams. Based in the Madrid area, he brings a rare blend of deep PHP legacy expertise and modern distributed-systems thinking that accelerates incremental architecture transformation.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
IngenierÃa Técnica en Informática de Gestión, IngenierÃa Técnica en Informática de Gestión at Universidad de Extremadura