Rafael Beckel
Computer Graphics Engineer - Core Maintainer at fragmentcolor.org
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRafael Beckel is a polyglot software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building web, mobile, and GPU-powered systems for clients ranging from HelloFresh and Rakuten to startups like Ready Player Me and Photoroom. Currently a core maintainer of FragmentColor and driving cross-platform graphics work in Rust and wgpu, he blends deep graphics expertise (GLSL/WGSL, Vulkan/Metal/DirectX/WebGPU) with backend and cloud experience in Go, Kafka, and Kubernetes. He has a proven track record founding and scaling product and research efforts—from an early mobile deep learning library for agriculture to high-traffic e-commerce platforms and political campaigns that reached millions. An aggressive generalist and visual artist, Rafael bridges low-level performance engineering and user-facing product design while routinely shipping cross-language bindings (JS, Python, Swift, Kotlin) and WASM tooling. Based in Berlin, he advises on MVPs and team assembly, pairing entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Administration, BS Business Administration at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasBachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration and Management General at Universidade Federal da BahiaMBA E-commerce & Digital Marketing, MBA E-commerce & Digital Marketing at FECAPBusiness, Business at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vista-art/fragmentcolor
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
🦀 Easy GPU programming for Javascript, Python, Swift, and Kotlin.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 2 months
androidartgpugpu-programminggraphics
rafaelbeckel/simple-checkout-frontend
Dec 2019 - Sep 2024
Frontend for my simple checkout page
Contributions:6 reviews, 26 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 10 months
reactjavascriptcheckoutfrontendcheckout-page
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