Rafael Alves
Software Engineer at Mercado Livre
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRafael Alves is a software engineer with 14 years in tech and over seven years focused on cloud infrastructure, AI and developer-facing platforms, currently shaping the Fury PaaS at Mercado Livre to serve thousands of engineers across Latin America. He combines hands-on cloud expertise across AWS and GCP (GCP Associate Cloud Engineer) with practical automation using generative AI, building bots and internal apps that cut manual work and accelerate operations. Rafael is proficient in observability and SRE-style practices—Datadog, Grafana, Python—while supporting compute, storage, messaging and CI/CD at scale. His background spans hands-on IT operations to platform engineering, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability, troubleshooting and developer experience. Based in São Paulo, he pairs a detail-oriented engineering style with a knack for documentation and internal training, and outside of work identifies simply as a dad, husband and optimist.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Escolas Técnicas EstaduaisBacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at UNINOVE
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (57)
orientdb10
mercadopago10
gwt10
java10
java-programming10
golang10
programming-language9
interpreter9
go9
rest-api8
odin8
compiler8
documentation8
api8
android-app8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dobau/reupi
May 2012 - Jul 2022
It saves my life...
Contributions:308 commits, 1 PR, 280 pushes in 10 years 4 months
my-lifelife
dobau/hackerRank
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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