Rafa Varela
Senior Software Engineer at Miro
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRafa Varela is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with seven years building cloud-first web applications and developer tools. He has deep hands-on experience at AWS across teams like Amazon Q Chat, SageMaker Autopilot and Managed Development Environments, shipping TypeScript/React front-ends and backend services in Go, Java and Python within micro-frontend and distributed cloud architectures. Rafa excels at driving cross-team initiatives from design through delivery, improving UX and operational excellence while mentoring new engineers. His research background in XAI and AI-driven projects at INESC informs a pragmatic approach to human-centered interfaces and interpretable ML tooling. Colleagues know him as a builder who pairs curiosity about ML and UX with production-grade engineering discipline. He combines strong cloud-native engineering with a knack for turning research insights into usable developer-facing products.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Engenharia, Engenharia de Software, Mestrado em Engenharia, Engenharia de Software at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (4)
typescript9
react9
bit7
react-components7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Revuj/Arquivo-de-Sentimentos
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 118 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Revuj/INESCTEC-Summer-Internship
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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