Rafael Benevides
Senior Tax Manager, Finance at Meta
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Benevides is a Senior Tax Manager and finance leader based in São Paulo with 16 years of experience bridging international tax, transfer pricing and tech-driven compliance across LATAM. At Meta he leads in-house transfer pricing for 2024 and steers complex tax policy work (DST, Pillar 1/2) and ASC 740 positions, while previously supporting IPO readiness and regional restructuring at Uber. He combines deep legal and tax credentials (LLM International Tax, JD) with executive training from Harvard, and he co-directs a tax-tech association (GTECS) that promotes innovation at the intersection of tax and technology. Unusually for a tax executive, Rafael is also an active software and DevOps contributor—committing to cloud-native and OpenShift projects and improving microservice deployments and release automation in notable open-source repos. That blend of hands-on engineering chops and senior tax strategy gives him a rare ability to translate technical constraints into auditable, scalable tax solutions for global tech businesses.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
LLM International Tax, LLM International Tax at Texas A&M UniversityLatin American Law certificate, Latin American Law certificate at Southwestern Law SchoolCertificate U.S. International Tax, Certificate U.S. International Tax at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignEconomics Certificate, Economics Certificate at University of Buenos AiresDoctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at Universidade de FortalezaExecutive Education Strategy and Leadership, Executive Education Strategy and Leadership at Harvard Business School Executive Education
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (46)
jakartaee10
caching10
jboss-eap10
kubernetes10
docker10
tracer10
scripting10
email-notifications10
microservices-application10
bash10
dockers10
java10
javas10
release-management10
automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-scholars/istio-tutorial
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
Istio Tutorial for https://dn.dev/master
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 154 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rafael focused on modifying microservice configurations and code, particularly related to port numbers and URL endpoints within the Istio environment. They addressed issues in the customer, preference, and recommendation services. Additionally, they contributed to the codebase by modifying and adding supporting scripts and documentation. The user also reverted and re-applied changes related to OpenTracing and header propagation.
istiokubernetesopenshiftenvoymicroservices
jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts
Aug 2012 - Feb 2016
The quickstarts demonstrate JBoss EAP, Jakarta EE 10 and a few additional technologies. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:352 commits, 5 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafael's commits primarily focus on updating and modifying quickstarts related to the JBoss EAP, demonstrating their involvement in the development and maintenance of backend examples. The changes encompass adapting quickstarts to use JDF format, merging code from infinispan/jdg-quickstart and aerogear/as-quickstar repositories, and updating to use a -with-logging BOM. The contributions show an emphasis on integrating and adapting existing projects within the JBoss ecosystem.
jboss-eap
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