Rafael Rocha is a Staff Software Engineer based in Germany with nine years building modern web applications, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning TypeScript/React frontends, Java/Spring backends and AWS infrastructure-as-code—with technical leadership roles from founding lead engineer to staff-level architect. Rafael has driven compliance-sensitive features like audit logging for payroll systems at Personio and introduced scalable frontend patterns and faster delivery tooling at Qonto. He has a practical history of migrating platforms to AWS, implementing microfrontends and improving CI/CD pipelines that accelerate feedback loops. A software craftsman and architecture enthusiast, he seeks humanistic-driven missions where technical excellence intersects with meaningful impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação, Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação, Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação, Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação at Universidade do Minho
Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação, Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação, Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação, Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação at Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnologia da Informação, Mestrado em Tecnologia da Informação, Tecnologia da Informação at University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Task Management API built with NestJS - a progressive web framework
Contributions:16 PRs, 26 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
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Rafael Rocha - Staff Software Engineer at plancraft