Rafael Althaus
CTO Partner at Laon Labs
Paraná, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Althaus is a CTO and technology partner with nine years of hands-on software experience and a decade-long relationship with code, leading product engineering and technical strategy from Paraná, Brazil. As co-founder and CTO at Laon Labs and CTO at Mellro, he combines startup leadership with day-to-day engineering, guiding teams through architecture, delivery and scaling. His background includes progressive full-stack roles at SantéMed and Consultame, where he advanced from intern to lead developer, showing a strong track record of internal promotion and long-term project ownership. Rafael balances product-focused leadership with continued coding—his GitHub contains mostly private work alongside selective open-source contributions—indicating a practitioner who prefers building proprietary value while sharing key insights. Educated in computer systems and computer science at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná, he blends formal training with years of freelance and corporate experience across web and mobile domains. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who moves fluidly between hands-on implementation and strategic CTO responsibilities.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
IT Technician, IT Technician at Sant'ana High SchoolComputer Systems Analyst IT, Computer Systems Analyst IT at Federal University of Technology - Parana
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
agora10
expo10
typescript10
android10
frontend10
react10
react-native-bridge9
mobile9
web-framework9
rtc8
sdk8
app-framework8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RafaelAlthaus/coders-pg
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
LaonLabs/laon-labs-recruiting-test
Aug 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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