Rafael Pato
Senior Engineering Manager at Studocu
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Pato is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience leading full-stack and mobile teams through hyper-growth stages. At Studocu he progressed from full-stack developer to senior engineering leadership, scaling teams of 6–10 engineers, mentoring individual contributors into leadership roles, and overseeing the mobile app organization. He combines hands-on technical fluency in Laravel, React, Python and Node with product-oriented practices—writing technical specs, running A/B tests, and improving developer experience. Pragmatic and people-focused, Raf is known for turning feature proposals into measurable outcomes and for hiring and developing high-performing teams. An early career background in travel-focused products and mobile app development gives him a practical edge in building user-facing systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico de Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos, Técnico de Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos at Escola Profissional Gustave EiffelBachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Computer Science at Birmingham City University
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (56)
jekyll10
home-assistant10
animated9
material-ui9
drag-and-drop9
grid9
higher-order-component9
react9
documentation9
sorting9
sortable9
home-automation8
material-design8
typescript8
javascript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
semanticaudio/safe-api
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 issue in 2 months
codeherence/react-native-header
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
A high-performance, cross-platform animated header component for React Native applications.
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 year 4 months
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