Rodolfo Ferraz
Staff Software Engineer at VTEX
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRodolfo Ferraz is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 13 years of experience building and leading high-throughput, resilient backend systems for ecommerce payments. He progressed from hands-on backend and infrastructure work to engineering management at VTEX, owning on-call reliability for services handling over a million requests per minute and cutting infrastructure costs by ~15%. As a former CTO he led cross-functional teams, scaled products to capture major market share in the dairy industry, and defended production systems against DDoS on minimal budgets. He combines deep technical curiosity—often diving into architecture and payment integrations—with a people-first management style focused on 1:1 coaching and product strategy. Comfortable switching between coding, cloud ops, and product discussions, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise-grade operational experience. His background in Computer Engineering and an MBA informs a pragmatic approach to aligning engineering execution with business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Sistemas e Estratégias de Inovação, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Sistemas e Estratégias de Inovação at CEDEPE Business SchoolComputer Engineer Computer Engineering, Computer Engineer Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, German
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Github Skills (18)
git-workflow8
agentic7
opensearch7
html6
css-position6
tor6
claude6
php6
css6
laravel6
visualization5
analytics4
gtk3
python3
git3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rcaferraz/tg
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:76 commits in 4 months
rcaferraz/Grande-Recife-reader
Aug 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:34 commits in 2 months
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