Rafael Carício
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRafael Carício is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 15 years of professional experience and over two decades of backend engineering expertise. He has led and built production-critical streaming and distributed systems—most recently at Netflix and previously architecting live-streaming infrastructure and an open-source ad-triggering tool (Hawkeye) at Paramount. Comfortable across Python, Rust, Go and cloud-native stacks, he pairs hands-on coding with systems design, Kubernetes, media tooling (GStreamer, FFmpeg) and production observability. A seasoned contributor to prominent open-source Python projects (pip, Connexion, Thumbor, Splinter), he often focuses on testability and API-first design, improving test coverage and developer ergonomics. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical leadership, from SPARQL and semantic-web optimizations to low-level media pipelines. He combines deep backend craftsmanship with a knack for turning complex streaming and data problems into reliable, well-tested services.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de PernambucoBachelor's degree Information Systems for Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Information Systems for Software Engineering at Faculdade Integrada do Recife
English, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
webdriver10
pytest10
selenium10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
image-processing10
testing10
tornado10
selenium-ide10
automation10
api10
yaml10
pip10
web-framework10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
spec-first/connexion
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 7 reviews, 194 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafael focused on implementing and testing features for the `connexion` framework, primarily related to handling boolean parameters and default values within API specifications. Their contributions included modifying core utility functions to correctly parse boolean values, adding tests to validate the correct behavior of boolean parameters in YAML configurations, and fixing issues with parameter validation in the framework's decorators. They also addressed issues with the framework's response handling and error responses.
redocpythonflaskapi-firstendpoint
thumbor/thumbor
Jun 2011 - Aug 2016
thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rafael made several contributions focused on enhancing the thumbor image processing service. Their work includes adding focal point features, fixing bugs in feature detection, updating the version, and refactoring core components like the JSON engine and transformer. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and improved the test suite.
imagethumbnailglobothumborphoto
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