RAFAEL POLO
Postgraduate in Data Science for Finance
- 2021
NOVA IMS Information Management School
Lisbon, Portugal
Master in Information Systems
- 2010 to 2012
Research Area: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (PPGI/UNIRIO)
Bachelor in Computer Science
- 2004 to 2009
Centro Universitário Metodista Bennett
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Extension in Digital Culture
- 2010
Communication School (ECO/UFRJ)
Rio de Janeiro Federal University
Java Software Development
- 2006 to 2007
Department of Electronic Computation (NCE/UFRJ)
Rio de Janeiro Federal University
Linux System Engineer
- 2004
M.Cury Computação
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Portuguese (native), English (full professional), Spanish (full professional), German (elementary) and Greek (elementary).
Swisscom - 2024 to 2025
DevOps Engineer — modernization of mission-critical
internal platforms & CI/CD pipelines for
high-availability Telecom infrastructure
Zurich, Switzerland
EDGE Empower® - March 2023 to March
2024
Senior Technical Lead — built a PayTool cutting processing
time by 98%; improved CI/CD pipeline from 14 to 4 minutes;
managed 3 developers and a UX designer
Baar, Switzerland
ExtraPolo - 2010 to 2022
Software Engineer & Consultant — civic tech & data
journalism, culture & arts, open source. 40+ projects
across data investigations, web platforms, interactive
installations and CMS systems
Rio de Janeiro · Berlin · Athens · Lisbon
GFOSS.eu / Code + Create - 2017 to
2018
Web Programming Teacher — web programming to refugee and
Greek youth through the Code + Create initiative (HTML, CSS,
jQuery)
Athens, Greece
Tactical Tech Collective - December
2014 to June 2016
Full-Stack Web Architect and Developer under Exposing the
Invisible team
Berlin, Germany
Trommsdorff + Drüner - December 2013
to January 2014
Developer for innovation + marketing consultants team
Berlin, Germany
Meio - 2010 to 2012
Co-founder of Meio Cowork space with Architects and
Designers
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cortex Intelligence - 2008 to 2010
Developer in the Competitive Intelligence and Data Mining
R&D team
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Logical Systems - July to September
2007
SysAdmin and Java developer of its applications
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
INPP - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Públicas
- April to July 2004
Main developer of the Company "Planning" Software in
Delphi
Teresópolis, Brazil
MeuServidor - 2003 to 2004
Co-founder of a Web Hosting Server based on Linux &
PHP
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
WebDoc Graffiti Platform - 2012
Collaborative Cartographies Initiatives
|
[website]
By Brazilian Federal Ministry of Culture
Dammatio Memoriae | Software-Art -
2011
Gallery & Book Publication
|
[website]
By Memefest: International Festival of Social Responsive
Communication & Art
CAPES Fellowship for Postgraduate Research
- first semester of 2010
By Brazilian Federal Ministry of Education
Connecting Cities – Prototyping Lab -
January 2015
Connecting Cities Network wants to develop an awareness on
the changes which are hardly visible to the eyes and are
underlying our nowadays cities.
Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
[website]
Pensar Público - February 2012
Exhibition on dynamic and real-time city mapping
Centro Carioca de Design. Studio-X, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
[website]
Galeria TAC | Vênus-Terra - January
2012
Presentation of the "Variation" artwork
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | [website]
Abotoados pela Manga - September
2010
3-week art-and-politic residency during 29º São Paulo
Bienal of Art
São Paulo, Brazil | [video]
Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP)
Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language
Understanding
Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data
Preparation
Fundamentals of AI Agents Using RAG and LangChain
API Design & REST Architecture
Full-Stack Development: Python · Ruby on Rails · TypeScript ·
React
Data Engineering, ETL, Relational Databases & SQL
DevOps: Docker · CI/CD Pipelines · AWS · Linux · SSH · Git
AI/LLM Integrations & AI Agents (RAG, LangChain)
Data Crawling, Scraping & Mining
System Architecture: MVC, OOP, UML Modeling
Web Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript & APIs