Rafael Portela
Senior Software Engineer at Pazze
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Portela is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with four years of hands-on experience building high-performance, production-grade backend systems for mobility, fintech, and fraud prevention. He specializes in Golang, TypeScript, Python and .NET, applying Clean Architecture and SOLID principles to design scalable microservices deployed on cloud platforms with container orchestration and serverless patterns. Rafael has a measurable track record of improving performance and reliability—examples include a 30% system speedup via Postgres indexing and faster deployments through Go-driven backend refactors. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines database tuning, messaging systems (Kafka/Redis/RabbitMQ), and rigorous testing/CI practices to deliver resilient services under real-world load. He thrives in distributed teams, values clear ownership and communication, and brings an engineer’s curiosity to side projects and motorhome travels with his family.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computational Engineering at Universidade Positivo
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Poportss/Poportss
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
Poportss/Desafio-Junior-Ellevo
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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