Rafa Haro
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolRafa Haro is a Principal Software Engineer and applied AI specialist with two decades of experience building scalable search, data pipeline, and cloud-native systems. He combines deep expertise in search and information retrieval (Lucene/Elasticsearch), high-throughput event architectures (Kafka, Spark), and modern NLP/ML (transformers, sentence embeddings) with a proven track record of leading migrations, rebuilding critical services, and shaping long-term technical strategy. As a hands-on leader he mentors teams, drives cross-team initiatives, and owns observability and performance for low-latency services at scale. He has co-founded startups and contributed to Apache projects (ManifoldCF, Stanbol), bringing both entrepreneurial grit and open-source stewardship to enterprise-grade platforms. Based in Valencia, Spain, Rafa often intersects R&D and product delivery—designing production ML systems like record-matching and SEO automation pipelines that moved research into reliable, deployable services.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Master of Innovation Management, Research and Development Management, Executive Master of Innovation Management, Research and Development Management at EOI Business SchoolUniversity of SevilleMSc in Linguistic Technologies and Data Mining, Computer Software Engineering, MSc in Linguistic Technologies and Data Mining, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (20)
parser8
svg-path7
svg6
transformation6
decorator6
node-canvas6
javascript6
canvas5
json4
dxf4
typescript4
nodejs4
serialization4
php3
deserialization3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelgc/easy8
Jun 2018 - Apr 2023
Web-based didactic 8-bit computer simulator.
Contributions:38 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
8-bitweb-based8-bit-computersimulationsimulator
rafaelgc/peix
Mar 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:61 commits, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
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