Rodrigo de Aquino

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience turning business needs into production software. Working closely with stakeholders, I understand how businesses operate, design practical solutions, build reliable systems, and continuously improve them as business needs evolve. My approach balances business goals, operational needs, usability, security, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.

I've worked remotely since 2005 and adapt quickly to new technologies and different business environments. I choose tools based on the problem being solved rather than being tied to a specific technology stack.

Senior Software Engineer at RocketGenius (2022 – Present)

Built and evolved commercial WordPress products for the Gravity Forms ecosystem.

• Designed backend services for new Gravity Forms product capabilities, collaborating with product managers and frontend engineers to deliver API-first features while maintaining platform stability and backward compatibility.
• Designed a distributed telemetry pipeline supporting large-scale production environments, using asynchronous processing and distributed locking to ensure reliable data collection, data consistency, and prevent race conditions.
• Built and maintained third-party integrations with PartnerStack and Chargify, supporting affiliate tracking, subscription lifecycle management, and payment workflows.
• Modernized legacy components by leading their transition to an API-first architecture, preserving backward compatibility while improving maintainability and enabling future product evolution.
• Proactively investigated and resolved complex production issues involving asynchronous workflows, third-party integrations, and product behavior, improving platform reliability and long-term maintainability.

Senior Software Engineer at Norte Marketing (2020 – 2022)

Developed a highly customized e-commerce platform for sports event registrations.

• Designed a multi-participant purchasing model allowing a single buyer to register and purchase for multiple participants as independent customer accounts while preserving ownership, delivery to each participant's address, reporting, and administrative workflows throughout the order lifecycle.
• Designed a configurable business rules engine allowing business teams to define participant eligibility, registration policies, and event-specific workflows without requiring software changes.
• Exposed business capabilities through GraphQL APIs, reducing frontend workarounds and accelerating product delivery.
• Quickly became productive with Magento 2, delivering production-ready features within two weeks while working on a highly customized e-commerce platform.

Senior Software Engineer (Founder) at TotLab (2009 – 2020)

Developed custom software solutions for Brazilian businesses.

• Worked directly with business owners to understand operational challenges and translate them into production software that automated and scaled business operations.
• Architected a recurring billing and accounts receivable platform supporting automated billing and payment reconciliation by abstracting bank-specific integration protocols into a unified financial workflow.
• Designed a Brazilian electronic invoicing platform handling complex fiscal rules, digital certificates, asynchronous government workflows, and user-friendly validation by translating low-level government responses into actionable feedback.
• Developed a rule-based inference engine that analyzes user input, applies Brazilian tax rules, and automatically infers missing information to simplify invoice issuance and reduce operational errors.
• Designed and evolved a secure multi-tenant SaaS architecture using domain events, strict tenant isolation, fine-grained authorization, and continuously hardened API boundaries to prevent unauthorized access to cross-tenant data.

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems – PUC Minas