Rafa M
Software Engineer at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafa M is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building capabilities for Amazon Alexa in San Francisco. A Pomona College-trained mathematician with a physics minor, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with practical software development, informed by research stints at Cambridge and work on dynamical systems and signal processing. He has taught and mentored over 100 students in advanced math and CS topics, translating complex concepts into clear, runnable solutions. Rafa’s perspective on programming—viewing languages as philosophies—drives thoughtful design choices and a preference for principled, well-modeled systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Pomona College
English, Spanish, French, Chinese
Github Skills (63)
streaming10
reactive9
concurrent9
akka9
concurrency9
high-performance9
actor-model8
cloud-native8
akka-streams8
distributed-systems8
typescript8
java8
twitter-bootstrap8
jvm8
microsoft7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Rafailong/scala-atom
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Rafailong/Rafailong.github.io
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
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