About Rafael
I am a dedicated software developer with 20+ years of experience, driven by a perpetual quest for improvement. As a Technical Lead and Software Architect, I prioritize code quality, system design, and customer value. Proficient in full-stack development, I excel in architecting systems, creating cloud environments, setting up deployment pipelines, anddelivering end-to-end features
English
Native or bilingual
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Native or bilingual
Swedish
Conversational
Finnish
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- VetFamily ABTech LeadApril 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)Stockholm, Sweden• ▪ Led the complete rebuild and rebranding of the Vetplan product, delivering a modern, high-performance version.• ▪ Designed and implemented a new API from scratch using Django REST Framework.• ▪ Collaborated closely with the UI/UX lead to transform Figma layouts into visually appealing and responsive web interfaces using React and Next.js.• ▪ Set up and optimized the infrastructure and deployment pipelines, ensuring smooth and reliable delivery processes.
- Hygglo ABSenior Full Stack EngineerOctober 2023 - March 2024 (5 months)Stockholm, Sweden• ▪ Hygglo is an innovative marketplace specializing in rental services.• ▪ Our platform enables users to conveniently rent out their possessions and access a wide range of items for temporary use.• ▪ Using a modern tech stack with Node.js with Express in the backed and React, Next/Expo and Tamagui in the frontend, and finally Docker, CI/CD with Circle Cland Heroku builds as DevOps, on this role I focused on ensuring the highest quality in user experience by following high coding standards and a meticulous testing pipeline.• ▪ This included GUI testing to enhance user interface functionality, integration testing for seamless component interaction, database testing for data integrity and performance, and comprehensive performance testing to ensure system efficiency under various conditions.
- GleechiTech LeadMarch 2021 - April 2023 (2 years and 1 month)Stockholm, Sweden• ▪ Gleechi is a startup that provides training applications in VR (virtual-reality) for different types of businesses.• ▪ In order to enhance the VR experience for their customers, there was a need of creating a web platform that could display insightful metrics with an easy to use UI.• ▪ In addition, the platform should also provide a way for VR developers to easily setup and configure important steps for the VR applications.• ▪ As the Tech lead developer, I was responsible for designing the architecture and developing the web application from its concept.• ▪ The result improved greatly the customer's experience and satisfaction as well as helped identify where each customer struggled more in their VR experience thus helping as well the VR teams to further improve the VR applications. Remote• ▪ This is a side job where I spend a few hours each week mentoring students in the Software Development Career Track course from the Springboard.com platform.• ▪ The work involves guiding the students in building their career path as software engineers, answering related questions and helping with problems they have with their assignments, as well as reviewing and grading their software assignments.
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Education
- GIS Architecture and AlgorithmsKTH Royal Institute of Technology2024GIS Architecture and Algorithms
- Urban ModelingKTH Royal Institute of Technology2025Urban Modeling