Rodrigo Lopes

Latest Experience

• [09/2015 - Present] Lead Technical Architect, TfL Online at Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk) London - UK

  Job description

  As the Lead Technical Architect for TfL Online, I lead a team of Technical Architects, Infrastructure and DevOps experts.

  Main projects

  Migration to the cloud: working with my team we defined the strategy and successfully migrated the TfL website and other internal system to AWS.
  Continuous Delivery: defined the plan to implement Continuous Delivery and led its implementation

  [02/2012 - 09/2015] Technical Architect, TfL Online at Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk) London - UK

  Job description

  As a Technical Architect my role at TfL was to ensure all services were delivered consistently across all environments and could be efficiently, quickly and accurately deployed. I would liaise with internal staff and third parties to ensure they were able to develop and deploy services which must be highly effective on TfL's Online infrastructure and work with associated applications. I was responsible to ensure compliance with TfL security, accessibility and design guidelines and also Government and industry best practices.

  Main projects

  Transport for London Website (tfl.gov.uk): I led the Web workstream of the new Transport for London website. Focusing on responsive web design (RWD), performance optimisation and accessibility.
  

  [08/2008 - 01/2012] Lead Developer, TfL Online at Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk) London - UK

  Job description

  As a Lead Developer at TfL I worked on various projects including the TfL Website, Intranet and Extranets. I needed to ensure my work was thoroughly tested, including unit, integration and acceptance tests.

  Main projects

  AppSaver: On my research and development time I built a tool for dealing with the back-end of web forms. This includes checking and validating all fields as well as generating SQL statements for tables and stored procedure creation. This reduced development and QA time for web forms from days to only a few hours.
  FormHandler: After AppSaver, I built an interface for form creation to allow any user to generate complex web forms using components and patterns from the TfL pattern library and integrating them with the CMS.

• [04/2006 - 08-2008] Lead Developer at be the brand experience (be-thebrand.com) London - UK

  Job description

  My main role at be the brand was to migrate Classic ASP applications to ASP.NET, bug fixing, design and style of new products, SEO and web site optimisation.

  Main projects

  Rebuilding their "new" website: My first task at be the brand was to rebuild their brand new website that wasn't performing well. I was able to made it 10x faster leaving the look and feel intact.
  CommsBuilder: I took part on the creation of a tool used for PDF Manipulation
  Digital Asset Store: I was a key part of the team creating this web based tool used to share re-purpose and distribute marketing collateral
  Projects Centre: I redesigned this tool that links with the Digital Asset Store to manage all projects and Marketing related activities.

  Clients

  Prudential, Winterthur, Citrix, International SOS, Alexander Forbes, Environment Agency, Baillie Gifford, Friends Provident and Co-operative Bank

• [09/1999 - 11/2004] Web Development Manager at Enetec.NET Uberaba - BR

  Job description

  Leading a team of Developers to ensure work was produced to a high standard and on time. Responsible for carrying out the technical and functional planning, design, development, testing and deployment of projects as well as supporting existing applications.

  Clients

  Universities, Hospitals, High Schools and Shopping Centres among others.