Rodrigo Lourenço
Senior Software Engineer at Mollie
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Lourenço is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, real-time applications and APIs across fintech and media companies. Based in Lisbon, he has shipped production systems at Klarna and Mollie and helped power Globo.com's sports real-time product using Python, JavaScript, Go and Ruby. He favors agile practices like TDD, Scrum and Kanban, and is comfortable exploring new languages and frameworks to solve engineering challenges. Rodrigo contributes to open-source image-processing tooling—adding SVG support to the widely used thumbor thumbnail service—demonstrating attention to robust back-end integrations and test coverage. His background spans hands-on backend work, queue integrations and front-end real-time features, making him adept at bridging system reliability and user-facing performance. Colleagues describe him as continuously driven by professional and intellectual growth, bringing pragmatic curiosity to complex problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technician, Computer Science, Computer Technician, Computer Science at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da FonsecaBachelor in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (5)
svg10
thumbor10
python10
image-processing10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thumbor/thumbor
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributed to the `thumbor` project by adding support for SVG image transformations. Their work involved integrating the CairoSVG library to convert SVG images to PNG format, enhancing the image processing capabilities. They also modified the code to include support for new content types and extensions within the utility and engine files. Furthermore, the user's commits show a focus on testing the SVG conversion functionality within the base engine tests.
imagethumbnailglobothumborphoto
rodrigolourenco/clappr-detach-plugin
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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