Raf Cabezas
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Remoter Labs LLC
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRaf Cabezas is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance software across mobile, embedded, and desktop platforms, currently leading engineering work at WillowTree from Brookline, MA. He combines deep systems-level C/C++ background from aerospace and machine control roles at Lockheed Martin with modern iOS and macOS expertise as the owner of Remoter Labs, delivering pragmatic solutions across consumer and enterprise projects. Raf has contributed to notable open-source work on the Provenance multi-emulator for iOS/tvOS, improving controller support, performance, and emulation accuracy—an indication of his attention to low-level timing and input fidelity. Comfortable mentoring teams and shipping production software, he blends electronics/digital-systems training with hands-on product development and a knack for squeezing better performance out of constrained platforms.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
St Paul'sComputer Science, Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityElectronics, Digital Systems, Electronics, Digital Systems at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
objective-c10
ios10
emulation10
performance-optimization9
swift9
uitableview9
game-development8
http6
uiimageview6
uicolor6
cocoa-touch6
uisearchbar6
alamofire6
iphone6
uinavigationbar6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Provenance-Emu/Provenance
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:16 commits, 16 PRs, 39 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Raf primarily contributed to the Provenance emulator project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to iOS controller support and performance. Their work included renaming and handling different 8Bitdo controllers, implementing iPhone 7-specific features using taptic engine, and addressing crash issues and time-related problems in the emulation loop. The user also improved the FPS counter and adjusted the emulation loop for better accuracy and performance.
gameboyemulatorgameemulator-frontendprovenance
rafcabezas/FreeRDP
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 31 branches in 10 years 1 month
freerdpremote-desktopremote-desktop-protocoldesktop
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