Rafael Caferati is a pragmatic, product-minded software engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end React and React Native applications for clients across the Americas and Europe. He combines hands-on frontend craft—UI/UX, animations and reusable components—with leadership roles at companies like Rocket.Chat, Unity, Sky and Publicis Sapient. As an award-winning UI/UX specialist and product designer, Rafael has significant open-source pedigree: his contributions to Rocket.Chat and popular libraries like react-awesome-slider and react-native-really-awesome-button emphasize performant, 60fps interfaces and reusable design systems. He frequently consults remotely from Rio Grande do Sul, delivering production-ready apps and components for startups and enterprises alike. Notably, he helped design Rocket.Chat’s open-source launch UI and led interface work for Unity’s React Native chat tooling, demonstrating a rare blend of product thinking and pixel-level execution.
React Native button component. Awesome Button is a 3D at 60fps, progress enabled, social ready, extendable, production ready component that renders an awesome animated set of UI buttons. 📱
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 159 commits, 73 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the development of a React Native button component. Their initial commit established the core functionality of the button, including the integration of animations and activity indicators. Subsequent commits focused on theming and styling, introducing new themes and features like background active states and auto-sizing. These changes demonstrate a focus on building reusable UI components with a variety of configurations.
React content transition slider. Awesome Slider is a 60fps, light weight, performant component that renders an animated set of production ready UI general purpose sliders with fullpage transition support for NextJS and GatsbyJS. 🖥️ 📱
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 289 commits, 97 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rafael's commits primarily focused on the initial structure and implementation of a React content transition slider. They established the demo application with React Router and included styling and example data. The contributions involve setting up build configurations, including webpack configurations for the demo and core styles, and the implementation of a component for the slider. The user's work appears geared toward building and demonstrating the core functionality and structure of a reusable React component.
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