Rafael Polo

Senior Software Engineer — Platform, Data & AI

Personal
First name:	Rafael
Last name:	Polo
Citizenship:	Portuguese (EU) · Brazilian — no work permit required
Address:	Basel, 4055, Switzerland
Email:	rafael@extrapolo.com
Web:	linkedin.com/in/rafaelpolo extrapolo.com

Postgraduate in Data Science for Finance – 2021
NOVA IMS Information Management School, Lisbon
Master in Information Systems – 2010–2012
PPGI/UNIRIO — Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Bachelor in Computer Science – 2004–2009
Metodista Bennett, Rio de Janeiro

Swisscom – 2024–2025 – Zürich, Switzerland
DevOps Engineer developing platforms for Telecommunication Operations.
EDGE Empower® – 2024–2025 – Baar, Switzerland
Senior Technical Lead managing projects and external UX & Dev Teams for a SaaS Product.
ExtraPolo — Independent Consulting – 2010–2022 – Rio de Janeiro · Berlin · Athens · Lisbon
40+ projects across civic tech, data journalism, open-source platforms and interactive installations for public and private clients.
Moedax Digital Services – 2018–2021 – Lisbon · Rio de Janeiro
Founder & CTO – Fintech startup connecting CBDC digital currency with KYC compliance automation.
GFOSS.eu / Code + Create – 2017–2018 – Athens, Greece
Web Programming Teacher – taught HTML, CSS, jQuery to refugee and local youth.
Tactical Tech Collective – 2014–2016 – Berlin, Germany
Full-Stack Web Architect – investigative data tools under Exposing the Invisible team.
Trommsdorf + Drüner – 2013–2014 – Berlin, Germany
Full-Stack Engineer – Innovation Team developing Business Intelligence dashboards.
Cortex Intelligence – 2007–2008 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Developer – Competitive Intelligence and Data Mining R&D team.

Languages & Frameworks: Python · Ruby on Rails · TypeScript · React · Java
DevOps & Infra: Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · AWS · Linux · Git
Data & AI: SQL · ETL · Data Engineering · RAG · LangChain · LLM integrations
Architecture: REST APIs · MVC · OOP · UML · System Design · Web Crawling