Summary
Rafael Valentim is a backend software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building high-performance, cost-conscious authentication and authorization services at Zup Innovation using Go and Kotlin. He brings deep practical knowledge of OAuth2, SAML2, OpenID Connect, FAPI and policy-driven authorization with Open Policy Agent, having integrated RBAC and ABAC at scale. Comfortable across JVM, Node.js and Python ecosystems, he designs resilient microservices with a strong focus on testing, CI/CD and AWS-native deployment patterns. Rafael pairs a research-oriented mindset with pragmatic engineering, optimizing for latency and operational cost in production systems. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he combines academic grounding from Universidade Federal de Uberlândia with hands-on product delivery in fast-paced environments.
10 years of coding experience
Bacharelado, Computer Science, Bacharelado, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia