Rui Guedes
Senior Software Engineer at DataCamp
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Guedes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Porto with 9 years of experience building backend systems, leading technical teams, and applying AI engineering practices across B2B platforms. He has repeatedly tackled high-complexity domains—from negotiating marketplaces for heavy vehicles to large-scale ad data ingestion and live migrations of legacy systems—favoring logical, scalable solutions that prioritize data integrity. Rui has driven performance improvements via advanced PostgreSQL techniques, monorepo and IaC adoption, and end-to-end ownership of migrations and developer workflows. His academic background includes a top-graded master's dissertation on extensible property-based testing frameworks, reflecting a strong foundation in dependable software design. Known for mentorship and cross-functional leadership, he pairs hands-on engineering with an ability to rework brittle architectures into maintainable, high-throughput systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (11)
java10
auto-generate9
checker9
fs9
verify9
restful9
search-engine9
elasticsearch9
opensearch8
python5
typescript5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fluent-check/fluent-check
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
A type-safe fluent-based property based checker natively written for Typescript.
Contributions:77 reviews, 194 commits, 52 PRs in 3 months
checkertype-safefluenttype-checkertypescript
RuiGuedes/AEDA1718_T6G4
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:108 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years
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