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title: "Rodrigo Lopes: critical infrastructure and data centers | WIP"
description: "Rodrigo Lopes, WIP consultant: electrical engineer with 23 years in power, cooling and monitoring for IT and data centers."
url: https://workinprogress.company/team/rodrigo-lopes
updated: 2026-10-27
lang: en
---

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# Rodrigo Lopes: critical infrastructure for IT and data centers

Rodrigo Lopes is an electrical engineer with 23 years of experience in critical infrastructure for IT and data centers: power, cooling, racks, containment, monitoring, secure rooms and vault rooms.

**23 years** of experience in data centers

Updated on October 27, 2026

 ![Portrait of Rodrigo Lopes](https://workinprogress.company/_astro/rodrigo-lopes.C-ZYXXHB_ZcGAf6.png)

## What is Rodrigo's experience?

Rodrigo is an electrical engineer whose career has been dedicated to the physical infrastructure that keeps systems running: power, cooling, racks, containment and monitoring for IT and data centers, as well as secure rooms and vault rooms.

For 23 years, Rodrigo has worked in technical sales for this infrastructure, alongside channel partners, specifying solutions for environments that cannot go down. An MBA in Marketing and an extension course in air conditioning systems round out that education.

## What is Rodrigo an expert in?

- Power infrastructure for IT and data centers
- Cooling for critical environments
- Racks and containment
- Physical infrastructure monitoring
- Secure rooms and vault rooms
- Technical and commercial specification of solutions

## What is Rodrigo's education?

- **Electrical Engineering**, Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes
- **MBA in Marketing**, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
- **Extension course in air conditioning systems**, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Languages: English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German (basic), French (basic).

## Which WIP services draw most on this experience?

The WIP services most connected to Rodrigo's experience:

Mission-critical operations

### [WIP Mission Critical](https://workinprogress.company/services/mission-critical)

Downtime or data loss costs your business too much to leave to improvisation.

quoted after assessment

Preparing for growth

### [WIP Scale](https://workinprogress.company/services/scale-readiness)

A campaign, a big client, or a launch is coming, and you don't know if your system can handle it.

quoted after assessment

Maintenance and monitoring

### [WIP Care](https://workinprogress.company/services/maintenance-and-monitoring)

The system is live, but nobody keeps regular track of backups, updates, and alerts.

starting at US$ 185 per month

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