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.
12 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 (44)
akka9
streaming9
concurrency8
actor-model8
agile8
cloud-native8
high-performance8
distributed-systems8
twitter-bootstrap8
reactive8
bootstrap8
electron7
javascript7
typescript7
bootstrap-datepicker7
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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