Rafael Alves
Software Engineer at Mercado Livre
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Alves is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently advancing cloud-native platforms at Mercado Livre. He specializes in AWS and Google Cloud, holds a Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification, and leads AI-driven automation and the Fury internal PaaS that serves thousands of developers across Latin America. His hands-on work includes building generative AI bots, dashboards, runbooks, and metric pipelines with Python, Datadog, and Grafana. He supports a broad spectrum of infrastructure services—EC2, GCE, Kubernetes, S3, DynamoDB, Pub/Sub, and Jenkins—while refining DevOps practices and internal tooling. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Rafael emphasizes clear documentation and internal training to empower product and engineering teams. Outside work, his GitHub bio — dad, husband, dreamer, optimistic — reflects a balanced, collaborative approach to technology and life.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Escolas Técnicas EstaduaisBacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at UNINOVE
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (61)
orientdb10
mercadopago10
gwt10
java10
java-programming10
golang10
programming-language9
interpreter9
go9
rest-api8
odin8
compiler8
documentation8
api8
android-app8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dobau/reupi
May 2012 - Jul 2022
It saves my life...
Contributions:308 commits, 1 PR, 280 pushes in 10 years 4 months
my-lifelife
dobau/hackerRank
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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