Rafael Barash
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Barash is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with nine years of experience building cloud-native developer tooling, currently working on Artifact Registry while commuting from Denver to Boulder. A University of Minnesota alum, he has a strong background in full-stack development and reliability engineering—early work includes improving Google Cloud Storage test reliability and building NSF-focused data platforms using React, GraphQL, and CDNs. Rafael blends backend systems thinking with pragmatic front-end delivery, having shipped tooling and integrations at scale from internships to full-time roles. He enjoys making “cool stuff,” maintains a public-facing portfolio at rafibarash.com, and brings the curiosity of a maker who values clear communication between engineering and product teams. An under-the-radar strength is his history teaching machine architecture, which informs his practical approach to system design and performance.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of MinnesotaNicolet High School
Github Skills (32)
algorithm10
algorithms10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
gcloud10
terraform10
gcp10
docker-registry10
go10
google-cloud10
golang10
security9
gatsby9
react9
gatsbyjs9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
globalcitydata/globalcitydata
Feb 2019 - May 2019
The code powering Global City Data
Contributions:196 commits, 192 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
city-data
rafibarash/docker-credential-gcr
Jul 2021 - Jun 2025
A Docker credential helper for GCR users
Contributions:48 pushes, 20 branches, 1 tag in 4 years
credentialdockercredential-helpergcr
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