Rafa Leyva
Sr Software Engineer Team Lead at Self-employed
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolRafa Leyva is a senior software engineer and team lead based in Granada with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native backends and APIs. He drives architecture and scalability at Constella Intelligence, leading teams that process millions of daily requests using Python, Kafka, Celery and a broad AWS/GCP stack, and has introduced agentic AI development workflows into day-to-day engineering. Rafa combines hands-on implementation—evidenced by his open-source Torrent Player and contributions to the widely used TheAlgorithms/Python repo (AVL and BST work)—with practical operational ownership as an on-call incident responder. Known for translating product requirements into resilient distributed systems, he also has a background in release management and improving test coverage to ensure reliable deliveries.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
python10
avl-tree10
data-structure10
binary-search-tree10
data-structures10
sorting-algorithms10
bucket-sort9
insertion-sort8
html6
audio6
vue6
airflow6
windows6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
TheAlgorithms/Python
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
All Algorithms implemented in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily contributed to implementing and refining data structures and algorithms in Python. Their work includes creating and modifying binary search trees and AVL trees, focusing on methods like insertion, rotation, and rebalancing. The user also fixed style errors, corrected indentations, and made improvements to existing code within the repository. Furthermore, the user integrated a local insertion sort function within the bucket sort implementation.
searchespythonalgosalgorithm-competitionssorts
rafaelleru/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
My personal configuration files
Contributions:437 commits, 8 PRs, 257 pushes in 5 years 6 months
zshconfigurationvimkarabinertmux
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