Rodrigo Saboya
Senior Software Engineer at Adyen
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Saboya is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building backend systems and full-stack products across startups and large platforms. He has designed event-sourced, gRPC-based architectures and worked extensively with Go, Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and messaging systems like NATS, delivering production systems for companies such as iFood, CloudKitchens and B2W. Rodrigo co-founded a startup where he owned end-to-end stack and DevOps, integrating hardware via MQTT and Protobuf, and later led technically complex integrations for financial and logistics billing. He contributes to DefinitelyTyped improving TypeScript typings for the Hapi ecosystem, reflecting a focus on developer experience and language ergonomics. Known for turning complex distributed requirements into pragmatic implementations, he blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership. Comfortable in both greenfield builds and large-scale refactors, he brings practical cross-language experience to resilient backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UERJElectronics and Computer Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (8)
type-system10
hapi10
typescript10
typesc10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
typescript-definitions9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Nov 2017 - Apr 2021
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 15 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributed to the type definitions for various Hapi.js related packages, including `hapi-pino`, `hapi-auth-bearer-token`, and `@hapi/call`. They also addressed issues related to the core `hapi__hapi` typings, moving app configurations and updating dependencies. Their work focused on enhancing the TypeScript support and improving the developer experience for projects using these Hapi.js ecosystem tools.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
saboya/webpack-chrome-manifest-generator-plugin
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 20 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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