Rudi Rocha
Director Of Engineering at AlphaSights
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRudi Rocha is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems across startups and international tech companies, currently serving as Director of Engineering at AlphaSights in Porto. He progressed from hands-on developer roles and government projects to leadership stints at Rocket Internet-linked ventures, Kununu, Hostelworld, and multiple tiers at AlphaSights, blending technical depth with people management. A passionate teacher and trainer, he actively mentors engineers and enjoys exploring new technologies through personal projects. His background in systems, networks and software architecture (MEng) informs pragmatic decisions around payments, APIs and checkout systems—areas he led at Hostelworld. Colleagues know him for switching seamlessly between coding, coaching, and shipping reliable production services.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
CESAEMaster's degree Eng. Informática - Arquitecturas Sistemas e Redes, Master's degree Eng. Informática - Arquitecturas Sistemas e Redes at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do PortoGraduation Information Systems and Software Computer Programming, Graduation Information Systems and Software Computer Programming at Universidade da Maia - UMAIA
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
26reputation
1kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (28)
user-management8
javascript7
vue7
bundle7
php7
constants6
heroku6
doctrine-orm6
symfony6
symfony-bundle6
element-ui6
odm5
doctrine5
ui-components4
ui-toolkit4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PHP-Orchestra/orchestra
Oct 2022 - Dec 2023
A PHP project orchestrator
Contributions:1 review, 30 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 1 month
orchestratorphpphp-project
rudirocha/gitpod-symfony-workspace
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
Simple Gitpod workspace boilerplate for Symfony development
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
gitpodboilerplatebundlephpgitpod-workspace
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.