Rael Cunha
Technical Lead at Avenue Code
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRael Cunha is a technical lead with 12 years of experience building scalable SaaS platforms and integrations, currently driving engineering at AvenueCode from São Carlos, Brazil. He combines deep Ruby on Rails expertise with modern frontend stacks (Node, React, Redux) and a strong operational mindset, having migrated complex systems to GraphQL, optimized performance to sub-second APIs, and modernized build and CI workflows. Rael has hands-on experience with analytics and customer tooling integrations (Intercom, Segment, Kissmetrics) and has improved reliability through AWS services like DynamoDB, SQS and Secrets Manager. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced UX and build automation for notable RetroPie projects and core frontend features for ScudCloud, showing attention to both user-facing polish and build/packaging automation. He pairs technical leadership and mentoring with a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes—faster apps, fewer bugs, and smoother team delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Data Security Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Data Security Management at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
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qt10
package-management10
scripting10
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
script10
front-end-development10
google-oauth10
build-automation10
sh10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
raelgc/scudcloud
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
ScudCloud - Slack for Linux
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:120 releases, 861 commits, 326 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rael's contributions primarily revolve around the front-end development of the ScudCloud application. They implemented the core structure of the main window and introduced essential CSS and Javascript files for styling, notification handling, and user interaction with the application. These changes include adding support for image pasting and quicklists for channels, indicating a focus on enhancing the user experience and visual appearance of the application.
linuxslack
RetroPie/EmulationStation
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
A Fork of Emulation Station for RetroPie. Emulation Station is a flexible emulator front-end supporting keyboardless navigation and custom system themes.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 62 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rael contributed to the EmulationStation front-end, enhancing the user interface and functionality. They implemented an option to automatically load system gamelists, improving user navigation. The user also added UI controls and logic for features like screensaver customization and filter management within the UI. Further contributions include adjustments for D-pad and analog input handling.
emulationfrontend
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