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- Swiss B permit / Portuguese (EU) citizen — "no work permit required" was wrong, Switzerland is not in the EU - Correct EDGE Empower and prior-role dates - Add Rodado (~730 Brazilian public datasets, 1TB Parquet, DuckDB, NL-to-SQL over MCP) alongside the existing HelvetiScan mention - Drop Java from the skills line — the scraper itself filters Java roles via JAVA_TITLE_RE, so listing it as a skill was inconsistent
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Rafael Polo
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Basel, 4055, Switzerland
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rafael@extrapolo.com
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linkedin.com/in/rafaelpolo
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extrapolo.com
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Senior Software Engineer — Platform, Data & AI
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Swiss B permit · Portuguese (EU) citizen
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20+ years building production systems across Switzerland, Germany, Greece and Brazil. Specialised in platform
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engineering, data pipelines and AI/LLM integrations. Fluent English · German B1 TELC (3 yrs Berlin + 3 yrs Basel) · EU
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citizen, immediately available.
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P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
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Swisscom
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DevOps Engineer · Zürich, Switzerland
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Modernization of mission-critical internal platforms & CI/CD pipelines for high-availability Telecom infrastructure.
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EDGE Empower®
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Senior Technical Lead · Baar, Switzerland
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Mar 2024 – Mar 2025
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Feb 2023 – Feb 2024
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Built a PayTool cutting processing time by 98%; reduced CI/CD pipeline from 14 → 4 minutes; managed 3 developers and a UX
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designer for a SaaS product.
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ExtraPolo — Independent Consulting
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Software Engineer & Consultant · Rio de Janeiro · Berlin · Athens · Lisbon
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2010 – 2022
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40+ projects across civic tech, data journalism, open-source platforms and interactive installations for public and private clients. Includes Rodado (~730 Brazilian public datasets, 1TB Parquet, DuckDB, NL-to-SQL over MCP) and HelvetiScan (scanner/mapper of 2.5M+ Swiss .ch domains — HTTP, DNS, TLS, WHOIS, CVE).
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Moedax Digital Services
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Founder & CTO · Lisbon · Rio de Janeiro
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2018 – 2021
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Fintech startup connecting CBDC digital currency with KYC compliance automation; built data pipelines and banking integrations in
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Python.
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GFOSS.eu / Code + Create
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Web Programming Teacher · Athens, Greece
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2017 – 2018
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Taught web programming (HTML, CSS, jQuery) to refugee and local youth through the EU-funded Code + Create initiative.
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Tactical Tech Collective
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Full-Stack Web Architect · Berlin, Germany
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Dec 2014 – Jun 2016
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Built investigative data tools and platforms under the Exposing the Invisible team (Ruby on Rails, data visualisation).
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Trommsdorff + Drüner
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Full-Stack Engineer · Berlin, Germany
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Innovation team — Business Intelligence dashboards for marketing consultancy clients.
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Cortex Intelligence
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Developer · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Competitive Intelligence and Data Mining R&D team.
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E D U C A T I O N
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L A N G U A G E S
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Dec 2013 – Jan 2014
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2008 – 2010
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Postgraduate in Data Science for Finance
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NOVA IMS Information Management School, Lisbon — 2021
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Master in Information Systems
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PPGI/UNIRIO — Knowledge Representation & Reasoning —
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2010–2012
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Bachelor in Computer Science
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Metodista Bennett, Rio de Janeiro — 2004–2009
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Portuguese — native
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English — full professional
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Spanish — full professional
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German B1 — TELC certified · 3 yrs Berlin + 3 yrs Basel
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C E R T I F I C A T I O N S
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Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP)
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Gen AI Foundational Models — NLP & LLMs
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AI Agents using RAG and LangChain
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T E C H S K I L L S
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Languages & Frameworks · Python · Ruby on Rails ·
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TypeScript · React
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DevOps & Infra · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · AWS · Linux ·
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Git
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Data & AI · SQL · ETL · Data Engineering · RAG · LangChain ·
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LLM integrations · Data Science
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Architecture · REST APIs · MVC · OOP · UML · System Design ·
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Web Crawling & Scraping
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References available upon request · CV updated May 2026
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