Rodolfo Santos
Staff Backend Engineer at Naura Innovation Lab
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRodolfo Santos is a Staff Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, banking-grade systems and leading technical teams across fintech and telecom domains. He has driven end-to-end backend strategy at radicant bank—designing the Banking Integration Layer, SDLC standards, automated security testing, and performance tooling under strict regulatory requirements. Now at Naura Innovation Lab he focuses on aligning technical architecture with business outcomes, shifting from pure implementation to building scalable products and partnerships. His deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, and Kubernetes is paired with practical DevOps and testing practices (k6, WireMock, CI/CD) that improve reliability and deployment velocity. Comfortable both mentoring teams and rolling up his sleeves to optimize distributed systems, he has a track record of turning prototypes into production-ready platforms that handle high transaction volumes. Based in Lisbon, he blends engineering rigor with a product-minded approach to ensure fintech partners build what scales, not just what works.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science Engineering, BSc, Computer Science Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de LisboaMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
rodolfosantos/dotGenerator
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
rodolfosantos/vcds-coding
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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