Rafael A
Senior Software Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael A is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems, currently shaping commerce infrastructure at Just Eat Takeaway.com from London. He is a pragmatic C# specialist with deep familiarity across the .NET ecosystem—ASP.NET Core, EF Core, Dapper, NHibernate—and hands-on experience with CI/CD, build automation and cloud platforms. Rafael has a proven track record in payments, checkout and migration projects, and routinely drives code quality through reviews, testing and automation. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed core NHibernate bugs and extended FluentMigrator with advanced PostgreSQL index features, demonstrating low-level database and ORM expertise. Equally comfortable on Ubuntu and macOS, he’s porting a Mozilla IoT project to C#, reflecting both systems-level curiosity and a willingness to tackle cross-platform engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Analise e Desenvolvimento de Sisteme, Tecnologia informática/Software, 10, Analise e Desenvolvimento de Sisteme, Tecnologia informática/Software, 10 at Faculdade de Tecnologia Termomecanica
Github Skills (23)
postgresql10
databases10
query-optimization10
dotnet10
sql10
optimisation10
dotnet-core10
fluentmigrator10
csharp10
nhibernate10
database10
optimization10
database-optimization10
database-api9
gist9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Fluent migrations framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 27 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafael focused on enhancing the FluentMigrator framework, specifically in supporting PostgreSQL database features. Their contributions included adding support for PostgreSQL 11, incorporating features like "INCLUDE" for index creation, and introducing index algorithm options (BTree, Hash, Gist, Spgist, Gin, and Brin) and other options. These changes involved modifying code related to generators, processors, and extensions, thus expanding the framework's capabilities and database compatibility. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of SQL database design and index optimization.
sqlserverormsql-serverredshiftfluentmigrator
nhibernate/nhibernate-core
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 43 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the NHibernate core. Their work involved addressing issues related to PostgreSQL sequences, Guid.ToString() functionality, and resolving issues related to mapping properties. They also introduced a Linux build menu. These contributions focused on core functionality and database interaction within the ORM framework.
poconhibernate-developersc-sharplinqorm
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