Rafael Biriba
Staff Software Engineer at Getsafe
Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRafael Biriba is a staff software engineer based in Böblingen, Germany, with over 14 years of professional experience and a total of 18+ years working with web applications and Ruby ecosystems. He has led backend architecture, scalability and observability efforts at companies like Getsafe and Shopify, building systems that process millions of events and surface data inconsistencies for company-wide remediation. Rafael combines hands-on engineering—designing microservices, high-performance APIs and internal tools—with mentoring and cross-team leadership to reduce technical debt and drive sustainable growth. Early experience running a solo web agency and building hosting products gave him broad operational instincts, from DevOps to client-facing delivery, that still inform his pragmatic approach to reliability and product impact.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist Degree in System Analysis and Development Information Technology, Technologist Degree in System Analysis and Development Information Technology at Instituto Superior de Tecnologia em Ciência da Computação do Rio de Janeiro (IST-RIO/FAETEC)High School, High School at Colégio Prioridade Hum
English, Portuguese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (127)
mls10
python10
rails-app10
google-oauth10
will-paginate10
custom-validation10
validation9
mqtt9
home-automation9
rspec9
automation9
home-assistant9
privacy9
raspberry-pi9
coercion9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelbiriba/hackathon_organizer
Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
Small rails app that receives Hackathon ideas and also to subscribe the developers into it.
Contributions:206 commits, 8 PRs, 157 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsmlsruby
rafaelbiriba/will_paginate_semantic_ui
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Integrates the Semantic UI pagination component with will_paginate
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 10 months
pagination-componentpaginationpaginatewill-paginatesemantic-ui
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