Rafael Almeida is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with over two decades in software design and 14 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native, machine learning, and Web3 solutions. He has led teams and architecture across startups and enterprises—driving a 50x cost reduction in render workflows at Futureverse, building large-scale NFT minting and AWS rendering pipelines at Sylo, and modernizing integration platforms at Transpower. Comfortable from low-level systems to high-level product strategy, he blends full-stack development, ML inference on edge and cloud, and DevOps/CI-CD practices to ship robust pipelines and APIs. Based in Wanaka/Tarras, New Zealand, he pairs technical mentorship with pragmatic hiring and delivery decisions, often stepping into roles that require rapid stabilization and scaling. Colleagues know him for quietly solving thorny problems and inventing practical tools—he literally built custom Blender add-ons and mobile ML tooling to meet production constraints.
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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Rafael Almeida - Software Engineer at Solnet Solutions Limited