Rafael Polo

Senior Software Engineer — Platform, Data & AI

Personal
Address:	Basel, 4055, Switzerland
Email:	rafael@extrapolo.com
LinkedIn:	linkedin.com/in/rafaelpolo
Web:	extrapolo.com
Citizenship:	Portuguese (EU) · Brazilian — no work permit required
Languages:	Fluent English · German B1 TELC (3 yrs Berlin + 3 yrs Basel) · EU citizen, immediately available

Postgraduate in Data Science for Finance – 2021
NOVA IMS Information Management School, Lisbon
Master in Information Systems – 2010–2012
Research Area: Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, PPGI/UNIRIO
Bachelor in Computer Science – 2004–2009
Metodista Bennett, Rio de Janeiro
Thesis: Agile Systems Development for Web 2.0 with Ruby on Rails

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 Company.
ExtraPolo — Independent Consulting – 2010–2022 – Rio de Janeiro · Berlin · Athens · Lisbon
For more than 10 years, worked as an independent Software Developer and IT Consultant, developing dozens of Projects for public and private contractors in Brazil, Germany, Greece and Switzerland.
Moedax Digital Services – 2018–2021 – Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro
Founder & CTO – connected Brazilian CBDC with KYC processes and automation
GFOSS.eu / Code + Create – 2017–2018 – Athens, Greece
Web Programming Teacher – taught web programming to refugee and local youth
Tactical Tech Collective – 2014–2016 – Berlin, Germany
Full-Stack Web Architect on an NGO under the 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 in the Competitive Intelligence and Data Mining Team.

System Analysis & Modeling with UML
Quick Proof-of-Concepts development, deploy and management.
Large Language Models, Gen AI, LangChain integration and Processes Automation
MVC System Architecture, Design Patterns & Object-Oriented Programming
Data Engineering, Data Science, Relational Databases & SQL
Experience with Blockchain, Smart Contracts and P2P systems
Distributing and Scaling Processes with Message Queues
Developing Web Crawlers & Bots for Data Mining & ETL
Linux Systems, VPS, DevOps, SSH & Deploy with Continuous Integration processes
Projects mostly developed in Python, Ruby on Rails, Django, Java
Full Stack Developer & Front-end Web Design with HTML, CSS and JavaScript frameworks
CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes and GitHub workflows