Rafa Paradela
Director Of Engineering at Xebia
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRafa Paradela is a Director of Engineering with 12 years of experience leading Scala-focused teams and delivering scalable, reactive systems from Seattle. A long-time champion of Functional Programming, he created and maintains popular open-source libraries at 47 Degrees and has hands-on experience as DevOps engineer and release manager for projects like scala-exercises' standard library lessons. He combines technical leadership with consulting and training—having instructed multiple courses at 47 Academy—and now directs engineering efforts at Xebia. Rafa’s background spans full-stack product delivery, mobile and backend systems, and build/release automation, reflecting both strategic vision and practical execution. Notably, he pairs deep Scala expertise with operational rigor in publishing and release workflows (Maven/GPG/Sonatype), a detail that often distinguishes his contributions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleiOS Development Bootcamp Mobile Developer, iOS Development Bootcamp Mobile Developer at IronHack
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
maven10
release-management10
sbt10
cicd10
scala10
pg9
gnupg9
devops8
firebase6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scala-exercises/exercises-stdlib
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Scala Exercises' lessons for the standard library
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 13 days
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily focused on setting up and configuring the project for distribution and publication to Sonatype. They added build configurations, including publishing settings for Maven, GPG configuration, and credentials. The commits also involved version management, changing the snapshot version, and adjusting the sbt-exercise plugin version. Furthermore, they updated developer information in the pom file.
scala
rafaparadela/rafaparadela.github.io
Jun 2014 - May 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 19 pushes in 6 years
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