Rui Castro
Engineering Manager at Freelancer
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolRui Castro is an engineering manager and information systems engineer based in Braga, Portugal, with over 20 years in software development and 12 years of focused industry experience. He blends hands-on full-stack and back-end engineering with leadership—currently shaping teams and delivery at Filestage while continuing freelance architecture work. Rui has built scalable microservice and e‑commerce integrations, led e‑learning platform engineering, and managed CI/CD and infrastructure for production-grade systems. He contributes to notable open-source Java projects, improving framework design and maintainability (e.g., refactoring form handling in the yegor256/takes framework). Comfortable moving between strategy, secure infrastructure, and detailed code refactors, he’s particularly strong at turning legacy or complex integrations into clean, testable architectures. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical direction, mentorship, and systems that balance robustness with developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática, Systems and Informatics Engineering, Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática, Systems and Informatics Engineering at Universidade do MinhoEscola Secundária Sá de Miranda
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (15)
oop10
javas10
web-framework10
java10
http9
http-server8
xslt7
xml7
devise6
nodejs6
lodash6
javascript6
mongodb6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yegor256/takes
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
True Object-Oriented Java Web Framework without NULLs, Static Methods, Annotations, and Mutable Objects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 54 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Rui refactored the `RqForm` interface into smaller classes, demonstrating a focus on improving the structure of the takes framework. The commits involve modifying Java code, specifically within the `org.takes.rq.form` package, and the changes impact the internal workings and maintainability of the framework. The user's contributions enhance the core functionalities related to form handling and parameter parsing, crucial for the framework's overall functionality. The commit messages point to efforts in code optimization and improved design of the library.
micro-frameworkjava-webundertowxml-xsltframework
rui-castro/roda
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:95 pushes, 96 branches in 10 months
rodadigital-objects
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