Rui Barbosa is a Developer Advocate with 10 years of experience helping developers adopt and integrate platforms, currently shaping developer relations at Box from Atlanta. He blends hands-on engineering—especially in IoT and embedded systems, contributing practical Arduino-based sensor simulation work to the MySensors project—with clear technical storytelling via blogs, demos, workshops and conference talks. Rui's background as a solution architect and professional services lead gives him a rare combination of customer-facing technical sales acumen and deep implementation experience across platforms like OutSystems. Known as a continuous learner and tinkerer, he excels at turning complex integrations into consumable demos and shortened time-to-value for customers.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Management, Licenciatura, Management at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
post Graduate, Business Strategy, post Graduate, Business Strategy at Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
Contributions:25 commits, 19 PRs, 21 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rui primarily contributed to the development and modification of an Arduino-based "MockMySensors" example sketch within the MySensors library. They implemented and refactored code to simulate various sensor types (door, motion, smoke, light, etc.) for testing purposes, interacting directly with the MySensors library's message structures. The user also focused on presenting the nodes and configuring the sketch to interact with a MySensors gateway.
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 months
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