Rafael Zanella
Senior Software Engineer at beyonnex.io
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRafael Zanella is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with over 13 years of professional experience and a 17-year history of coding across languages and architectures. He has a strong backend focus—primarily Java, Scala and distributed systems—having driven migrations from monoliths to cloud-ready microservices and introduced Scala and type-safe patterns into production teams. Rafael's recent roles include senior engineering positions at beyonnex.io, Tripadvisor and Talkdesk, where he worked on high-throughput systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgres and Quorum. He pairs pragmatic system design with hands-on work in frontend stacks (React, TypeScript) and DevOps tasks like low-downtime Postgres migrations. Known for reworking architectures to leverage compile-time safety (algebraic data types) and for debugging at the OS/C level early in his career, he brings both deep implementation know-how and an eye for long-term maintainability. Fluent in evolving legacy platforms into resilient, testable systems, he thrives in teams modernizing complex backends.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (161)
angular-ui10
datatable10
integrations10
consul10
datagrid10
microservices10
reactive10
charts10
hashicorp10
scale10
vault10
golang10
batch10
angular10
netflix10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zanella/zanella.github.io
Dec 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
zanella/nomad-api
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 PRs, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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