Rui Gonçalves
Principal Software Engineer at Zalando Marketing Services
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRui Gonçalves is a Senior Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and backend platforms, currently designing real-time bidding and ML-integrated optimization at Zalando in Berlin. His career spans research-driven work on large-scale distributed query engines and RDMA-based shuffling to pragmatic Java microservice architectures that connected ticketing and booking partners at Groupon. Rui holds a PhD in Computer Science and has repeatedly focused on squeezing performance and scalability from analytical workloads, a thread that ties his academic research to production systems. He combines deep systems-level expertise with hands-on product delivery, comfortable both designing query engines and implementing RESTful integrations. An understated strength is his long-running focus on tooling and methodologies to simplify optimized parallel and distributed software development, bridging theory and applied engineering.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (17)
xml6
collections6
saxon6
malware6
escaping6
wordpress6
java6
exceptions6
wordpress-themes6
xslt6
mysql6
code-editor5
git4
mkdocs4
macos3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rcgoncalves/librcg
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 7 years 6 months
rcgoncalves/wordpress-themes
Aug 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
wordpresswordpress-themegraythemeswordpress-plugin
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