Rafael Branco
Data Engineer
Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Branco is a data engineer and computer engineer with nine years of hands-on experience, currently completing a master's dissertation on time series air quality forecasting and working at Loop Future. He blends practical software engineering—evidenced by full-stack SaaS work and contributions to the dunst notification daemon—with academic teaching across C, C++, C#, web development and computer graphics. Comfortable from low-level C pointer arithmetic to ML-focused forecasting, he excels at translating complex technical topics into teachable exercises and reliable production features. Known as a collaborative team player and mentor, he seeks projects that deliver measurable impact on people's lives. An unusual mix of rigorous academic grading (high master’s marks) and real-world engineering gives him both analytical depth and pragmatic delivery skills.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatic Engineering, 15.4, Bachelor's degree, Informatic Engineering, 15.4 at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
dbus10
testing9
x118
libnotify8
wayland8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dunst-project/dunst
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Software Architect
Back-end Developer / Software ArchitectContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on enhancing the notification daemon's functionality. They implemented a feature to override the timeout set by the D-Bus interface using rule attributes. Additionally, they added tests to validate the behavior of these new rule attributes, improving the code's test coverage and reliability. These contributions demonstrate a focus on extending the daemon's capabilities and ensuring its correct operation.
daemonnotificationscustomizablenotification-centernotification
rpbranco/djinn
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Djinn is a discord bot whose objective is to provide you a way of choosing a movie to watch.
Contributions:5 reviews, 26 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
discordbotmoviediscord-botto-watch
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