Summary
Rui Martins is a Tech Lead Architect based in Lisbon with over a decade of experience designing and delivering complex software and platform solutions. He blends deep low-level systems and hardware tinkering—assembly, microcontrollers and OpenNI/Kinect—with modern cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana and AWS. Rui’s background spans C/C++, Java/Scala, web stacks and databases, plus strong networking protocol and architecture expertise, enabling him to bridge embedded, backend and infrastructure domains. He has led engineering and architecture efforts across telco/media and enterprise projects at companies including Sky Technology Centre and Dynamic Yield by Mastercard. Known as a software engineer by trade and hardware hacker by hobby, he brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to solving performance and observability challenges. Colleagues value his ability to translate legacy, low-level knowledge into robust, cloud-ready architectures.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Escola Secundária do Restelo
Escola Secundária Belém - Algés
Escola Secundária Ferreira Borges
Enginering BSc Software Engineering Electronics & Computer Architectures, Enginering BSc Software Engineering Electronics & Computer Architectures at Instituto Superior Técnico
Escola Secundária Paula Vicente
Portuguese, English, French