Rafael Chargel is a senior software engineer with over two decades of experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-driven architectures across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Currently at Addepar, he builds microservices on AWS and Kubernetes to provide near-real-time accounting for complex financial assets, and previously led high-scale streaming, ML inference, and auditing systems at Comcast and SIG. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Kotlin, Python, Kafka, and Flink with practical product sensibilities—having designed self-healing pipelines and UI tools that cut operational overhead and enabled regulatory compliance. A Rio de Janeiro native and George Mason-trained digital artist, Rafael pairs technical rigor with creative curiosity, pursuing languages, art, and nature to inform continuous learning and cross-cultural collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Digital Art and Animation, BFA Digital Art and Animation at George Mason University
Contributions:4 releases, 24 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 years
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