luisprates

Rust Software Engineer

Experienced Software Engineer with 5 years of expertise in automating business processes and enhancing team efficiency. Skilled in developing and testing new tools for applicability. Finished Common Core from 42 Lisboa, complemented by a Master's in Mechanical Engineering.
Currently doing 42 Lisboa's Advanced Cursus. Proficient in Rust, C, VB.NET, and TypeScript. Seeking to leverage my diverse technical background and passion for Rust to excel as a Rust Software Engineer.


Experience: 1 year

Yearly salary: $60,000

Hourly rate: $30

Nationality: 🇵🇹 Portugal

Residency: 🇵🇹 Portugal


Experience

Release Manager
Solvay SBS
2025 - 2025
Maintained and validated the release's calendar, assisting in following the necessary procedures to ensure the planned releases were timely deployed to the production environment. Kept track of internal projects and facilitated their development, acting as a bridge between the different teams, both internal and external teams, in the tech stack. Successfully managed the deployment of a huge backlog of releases after a frozen period lasting several months. Contributed to the standardization of different workflows that streamlined the release procedure.
RPA Engineer
Solvay SBS
2021 - 2025
Spearheaded UiPath automation projects to efficiently optimize workflows and implemented hotfixes to guarantee system stability. Developed multiple PowerShell scripts that improved team productivity. Integrated and tested BMC Helix, Jira, and Jenkins for efficient workflow management, and developed webhooks for real-time monitoring with UiPath Orchestrator. Explored and implemented the ELK Stack for performance anomaly tracking and process visualization. Improved the reliability of several of the processes I worked on, some of which had long-standing bugs before I fixed them. Created a set of scripts that reduced the team's expected time to complete an upgrade, which spanned all of the existing automations and was expected to take a long time, by more than 70%.
Junior Software Engineer
Abbym.IO
2020 - 2021
Developed CLI scripts with Node.js for rapid plugin certification and compression. Customized GUI components in an existing C application to improve usability and efficiency.

Skills

agile
backend
c-plus-plus
c-sharp
computer-science
docker
elasticsearch
embedded
engineer
english
git
gpt
javascript
jira
linux
macos
nestjs
nginx
node
postgres
remote
rust
sql
typescript
vue
english
portuguese