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            <p class="title">Rafael Polo</p>
            <p class="subtitle">Senior Software Engineer — Platform, Data & AI</p>

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                    <td class="header" colspan="2">Personal</td>
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                    <td class="label">Address:</td>
                    <td>Basel, 4055, Switzerland</td>
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                    <td class="label">Email:</td>
                    <td>rafael@extrapolo.com</td>
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                    <td class="label">LinkedIn:</td>
                    <td>linkedin.com/in/rafaelpolo</td>
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                    <td class="label">Web:</td>
                    <td>extrapolo.com</td>
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                    <td class="label">Citizenship:</td>
                    <td>Portuguese (EU) · Brazilian — no work permit required</td>
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                    <td class="label">Languages:</td>
                    <td>Fluent English · German B1 TELC (3 yrs Berlin + 3 yrs Basel) · EU citizen, immediately available</td>
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            <h3>Formal Education</h3>
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                <li><em><strong>Postgraduate in Data Science for Finance</strong></em> – 2021<br>
                <span class="edu-school">NOVA IMS Information Management School, Lisbon</span></li>
                <li><em><strong>Master in Information Systems</strong></em> – 2010–2012<br>
                <span class="edu-school">Research Area: Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, PPGI/UNIRIO</span></li>
                <li><em><strong>Bachelor in Computer Science</strong></em> – 2004–2009<br>
                <span class="edu-school">Metodista Bennett, Rio de Janeiro</span></li>
                <li>Thesis: Agile Systems Development for Web 2.0 with Ruby on Rails</li>
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            <h3>Relevant Professional Experience</h3>
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                <li><strong>Swisscom</strong> – <em>2024–2025</em> – <em>Zürich, Switzerland</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>DevOps Engineer</strong> developing platforms for Telecommunication Operations.</p></li>
                <li><strong>EDGE Empower®</strong> – <em>2024–2025</em> – <em>Baar, Switzerland</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>Senior Technical Lead</strong> managing projects and external UX & Dev Teams for a SaaS Company.</p></li>
                <li><strong>ExtraPolo — Independent Consulting</strong> – <em>2010–2022</em> – <em>Rio de Janeiro · Berlin · Athens · Lisbon</em>
                <p class="job-desc">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.</p></li>
                <li><strong>Moedax Digital Services</strong> – <em>2018–2021</em> – <em>Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>Founder & CTO</strong> – connected Brazilian CBDC with KYC processes and automation</p></li>
                <li><strong>GFOSS.eu / Code + Create</strong> – <em>2017–2018</em> – <em>Athens, Greece</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>Web Programming Teacher</strong> – taught web programming to refugee and local youth</p></li>
                <li><strong>Tactical Tech Collective</strong> – <em>2014–2016</em> – <em>Berlin, Germany</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>Full-Stack Web Architect</strong> on an NGO under the Exposing the Invisible Team.</p></li>
                <li><strong>Trommsdorf + Drüner</strong> – <em>2013–2014</em> – <em>Berlin, Germany</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>Full-stack Engineer</strong> – Innovation Team developing Business Intelligence dashboards.</p></li>
                <li><strong>Cortex Intelligence</strong> – <em>2007–2008</em> – <em>Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</em>
                <p class="job-desc"><strong>Developer</strong> in the Competitive Intelligence and Data Mining Team.</p></li>
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            <h3>Certifications</h3>
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                <li>Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP)</li>
                <li>Gen AI Foundational Models — NLP & LLMs</li>
                <li>AI Agents using RAG and LangChain</li>
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            <h3>Relevant Tech Skills</h3>
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                <li>System Analysis & Modeling with UML</li>
                <li>Quick Proof-of-Concepts development, deploy and management.</li>
                <li>Large Language Models, Gen AI, LangChain integration and Processes Automation</li>
                <li>MVC System Architecture, Design Patterns & Object-Oriented Programming</li>
                <li>Data Engineering, Data Science, Relational Databases & SQL</li>
                <li>Experience with Blockchain, Smart Contracts and P2P systems</li>
                <li>Distributing and Scaling Processes with Message Queues</li>
                <li>Developing Web Crawlers & Bots for Data Mining & ETL</li>
                <li>Linux Systems, VPS, DevOps, SSH & Deploy with Continuous Integration processes</li>
                <li>Projects mostly developed in Python, Ruby on Rails, Django, Java</li>
                <li>Full Stack Developer & Front-end Web Design with HTML, CSS and JavaScript frameworks</li>
                <li>CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes and GitHub workflows</li>
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            <h3>Natural Languages</h3>
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                <li>Native Brazilian Portuguese</li>
                <li>Advanced Spoken Spanish</li>
                <li>A2 level Greek – <em>3 years in Athens</em></li>
                <li>B1 level German / TELC proof – <em>3 years in Berlin</em> and 3 in Switzerland</li>
                <li>Fluent English – <em>13 years in between international teams</em></li>
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                References available upon request · CV updated May 2026
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