Summary
Rodrigo Braz is a Senior Server Engineer based in Lisbon with 12 years of experience building highly available backend systems and a 3-year background in mobile and full-stack development. Trained in Distributed Systems (MSc) at Instituto Superior Técnico, he excels in architecting scalable APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring, working fluently across Go, Python, Java and Kotlin without being language‑bound. He’s led engineering and operational efforts at startups and scale-ups—co-founding two companies and shaping Skyhour’s backend, deployments and mobile stack before driving server engineering at Scopely. Rodrigo combines hands-on database optimization (SQL and NoSQL) with practical security and observability practices, and is comfortable owning projects end-to-end from design to deployment. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often brings a product-minded perspective from his entrepreneur background to engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Secundária de Camões
Master of Science (MSc) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Major in Distributed Systems, Minor in Multimedia Systems, Master of Science (MSc) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Major in Distributed Systems, Minor in Multimedia Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish