Rodrigo Urubatan Ferreira Jardim

Hey, I'm Rodrigo — a software engineer with 25+ years of experience who still gets genuinely excited about solving hard problems and helping teams do their best work.

I've spent my career bouncing between R&D labs, consulting gigs, and product companies across industries like fintech and media. These days I'm at Donorbox, building technology that helps nonprofits raise money — which turns out to be a pretty meaningful place to ship code.

My path there has been anything but linear. I started as a full stack engineer, rebuilt the company's in-person donation tool from the ground up, then somehow ended up building an entire Data team from scratch — two developers buried in requests became a proper org with dedicated Data Analysis and Data Engineering squads, an industry-standard pipeline (Airflow + dbt + Superset), and eventually its own Engineering Manager. One of those things I'm quietly proud of.

Now I'm back leading the Online Fundraising team, obsessing over things like automated UI testing, LLM-assisted development workflows, and shipping features that actually move the needle for our users.

Outside of work, I'm a CrossFit regular, a boxer, and a keyboard player in progress. I also write — both technical books (one of them a Ruby on Rails bestseller in Brazil 🇧🇷) and, lately, fiction. I love mentoring developers and speaking at conferences about the things I care about most: code quality, agile, AI, and building sustainable teams.

Based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Always happy to talk tech, writing, or training.