Bernat Rafales
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolBernat Rafales is a Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience specializing in backend and platform engineering for eCommerce, currently driving platform efforts at Microsoft from Prague. He is fluent in Ruby on Rails and cloud-native tooling, with deep hands-on experience designing AWS-based, infrastructure-as-code platforms using Terraform, CloudFlare and GitHub Actions to make teams faster, safer and more autonomous. At Bloom & Wild he progressed from Principal Developer to Principal Platform Engineer, leading initiatives around CI/CD, trunk-based development, automation and observability that reduced time-to-deploy and operational toil. A pragmatic DevOps evangelist, Bernat blends developer empathy with production-grade engineering practices to enable self-service infrastructure and cost-effective reliability. His background spans technical leadership roles across major UK eCommerce brands, giving him a strong track record of turning complex platform problems into repeatable, developer-friendly solutions.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (164)
firmware10
ruby-client10
arm10
keyboard10
avr10
atmel10
rp204010
usb10
rest9
api9
soap-client9
faraday9
swagger9
qmk9
distributed-tracing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brafales/qmk_firmware
Aug 2017 - Sep 2021
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR and ARM USB families
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 1 month
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
notonthehighstreet/svelte
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Dynamic Ruby API Client from Swagger JSON Spec
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 2 months
api-clientapirubyspecruby-api
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