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Rafael Polo
Basel, 4055, Switzerland
rafael@extrapolo.com
linkedin.com/in/rafaelpolo
extrapolo.com
Senior Software Engineer — Platform, Data & AI
Portuguese (EU) · Brazilian — no work permit required
20+ years building production systems across Switzerland, Germany, Greece and Brazil. Specialised in platform
engineering, data pipelines and AI/LLM integrations. Fluent English · German B1 TELC (3 yrs Berlin + 3 yrs Basel) · EU
citizen, immediately available.
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
Swisscom
DevOps Engineer · Zürich, Switzerland
Modernization of mission-critical internal platforms & CI/CD pipelines for high-availability Telecom infrastructure.
EDGE Empower®
Senior Technical Lead · Baar, Switzerland
2024 – 2025
Mar 2023 – Mar 2024
Built a PayTool cutting processing time by 98%; reduced CI/CD pipeline from 14 → 4 minutes; managed 3 developers and a UX
designer for a SaaS product.
ExtraPolo — Independent Consulting
Software Engineer & Consultant · Rio de Janeiro · Berlin · Athens · Lisbon
2010 – 2022
40+ projects across civic tech, data journalism, open-source platforms and interactive installations for public and private clients.
Moedax Digital Services
Founder & CTO · Lisbon · Rio de Janeiro
2018 – 2021
Fintech startup connecting CBDC digital currency with KYC compliance automation; built data pipelines and banking integrations in
Python.
GFOSS.eu / Code + Create
Web Programming Teacher · Athens, Greece
2017 – 2018
Taught web programming (HTML, CSS, jQuery) to refugee and local youth through the EU-funded Code + Create initiative.
Tactical Tech Collective
Full-Stack Web Architect · Berlin, Germany
Dec 2014 – Jun 2016
Built investigative data tools and platforms under the Exposing the Invisible team (Ruby on Rails, data visualisation).
Trommsdorff + Drüner
Full-Stack Engineer · Berlin, Germany
Innovation team — Business Intelligence dashboards for marketing consultancy clients.
Cortex Intelligence
Developer · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Competitive Intelligence and Data Mining R&D team.
E D U C A T I O N
L A N G U A G E S
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014
2008 – 2010
Postgraduate in Data Science for Finance
NOVA IMS Information Management School, Lisbon — 2021
Master in Information Systems
PPGI/UNIRIO — Knowledge Representation & Reasoning —
2010–2012
Bachelor in Computer Science
Metodista Bennett, Rio de Janeiro — 2004–2009
Portuguese — native
English — full professional
Spanish — full professional
German B1 — TELC certified · 3 yrs Berlin + 3 yrs Basel
C E R T I F I C A T I O N S
Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP)
Gen AI Foundational Models — NLP & LLMs
AI Agents using RAG and LangChain
T E C H S K I L L S
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 · Data Science
Architecture · REST APIs · MVC · OOP · UML · System Design ·
Web Crawling & Scraping
References available upon request  ·  CV updated May 2026