Summary
Rui Fernandes is a seasoned technical architect and team leader with over 20 years of experience and 13 years in customer-facing roles, currently leading the CSTA team for Confluent Iberia to align modern data platforms with strategic business goals. He combines deep expertise in data streaming, content and process management with a background spanning presales, professional services and hands-on implementation, enabling pragmatic, scalable real-time solutions. Trilingual and cross-functional by nature, Rui excels at translating customer needs into architecture and delivery plans that drive measurable outcomes. His career includes senior technical roles at Confluent, Neo4j, Alfresco and Rocket.Chat, reflecting a consistent focus on bridging product, sales and engineering. Known for fostering collaborative teams, he brings an engineering-physics mindset to complex system design and a knack for making real-time data platforms practical for enterprise adoption.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia Fisica Tecnológica, Engineering Physics, Engenharia Fisica Tecnológica, Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico
Spanish, English, Portuguese