Rafael Costa is a Full-Stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and supporting web applications across front-end and back-end stacks, currently working at minu.co with Node, React, NextJS, GraphQL, Kafka and MongoDB. He has a strong background in both enterprise and educational software, having contributed to Portugol Studio—an open-source teaching IDE with over 400,000 downloads—where he improved UI/UX and built a custom calendar library. Rafael’s prior roles in logistics tech and university labs exposed him to diverse systems including Java/Spring Boot, Oracle, Docker, and mobile using React Native, making him comfortable across legacy and modern stacks. Known as a proactive problem-solver, he repeatedly tackles complex bugs and feature work from tab-scrolling fixes to backend integrations. Based in São Paulo, he combines a gamer/geek mindset with a focus on continuous learning and measurable results. He brings practical delivery experience and a penchant for polishing user-facing details that improve developer and learner experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Informática Informática, Técnico em Informática Informática at Colégio Adélia Camargo Corrêa
Bacharelado Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado Ciência da Computação at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Ambiente de Programação didático para a linguagem Portugol 2.0
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 38 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the user interface and application functionality of the Portugol Studio IDE. They fixed a bug related to tab scrolling, corrected the margin in the search field, and updated the "About" screen, including fixing a broken link and updating member lists. Furthermore, the user created a new calendar library by adding new functions and constants.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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