Summary
Rafael Mendes is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering reliable web and e-commerce systems, currently working in Cork and building at Konvi. He brings deep expertise across PHP (Magento, Zend, Yii), modern JavaScript tooling and frameworks, and infrastructure automation with Docker, Vagrant, bash and webpack. Rafael is known for clean, well-documented code, strong testing discipline (jest/puppeteer) and standardising environments to make deployments and developer on-boarding repeatable. His background spans high-impact projects from national-scale data warehouse performance gains to fast-paced retail platform support for enterprise clients. A practical problem-solver, he has a track record of creating reusable tooling—like company-wide alias managers and one-liner test scaffolding—that boost team velocity. Fluent in both legacy refactoring and modern stack improvements, he actively seeks collaborative teams and complex challenges.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino médio, Ensino médio at School Marista Pio X
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Instituto de educação superior da paraíba(IESP)
Portuguese, French, English, Japanese