Rafael Patro
Lead Backend Engineer at VML ES
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Patro is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Lisbon with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping backend systems, particularly in e-commerce platforms and Magento/Adobe Commerce implementations. He has progressed from early web and systems development roles in Brazil to leading backend efforts for major clients at VML ES, blending deep SQL and database tuning knowledge with practical product delivery. Comfortable in both maintenance-heavy commerce stacks and greenfield backend architecture, he’s known for bridging developer-facing concerns with client-facing requirements. Rafael’s career shows a pattern of rapid specialization in Magento ecosystems before expanding into broader backend leadership, and he brings a pragmatic, operations-aware mindset to scaling teams and systems. Trained in computer science and database tuning, he combines academic grounding with a decade of production experience across multinational projects.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulDatabase e SQL Tunning Tecnologia da Informação, Database e SQL Tunning Tecnologia da Informação at TargetTrust
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (57)
ecommerce10
magento10
magento-extension10
php10
marketing-automation9
marketing-tools9
rio9
mautic9
pagespeed9
email-marketing9
composer9
affiliates9
adobe9
httpd8
firefox8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Frete-Click/Magento-1.x.x
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Módulo para realização de frete com a Frete Click na plataforma Magento.
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
magento
rafaelpatro/Quack_BB
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 51 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 5 months
pagamentosmagento2bancobanco-do-brasilmagento
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