Rafael Cruz
Frontend Developer at Promptly
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Cruz is a frontend developer with seven years of experience building robust, accessible, and data-driven web applications across startups and enterprise teams. With a unique foundation in medicine and hands-on research in bioinformatics and synthetic biology, he blends scientific rigor with practical UI engineering—contributing features and accessibility improvements to well-known projects like Redash and Databricks SQL. He excels in complex frontend tooling (TypeScript, Webpack, Next.js), testing (Jest, Cypress), charting and visualization, and platform automation (CI/CD, Docker, dbt), and has led technical discussions and onboarding across squads. Rafael also has a track record of harmonizing clinical datasets under standards like OMOP and delivering BI-backed insights for major healthcare providers. Beyond code, he applies UX-first thinking and developer experience best practices, and brings leadership experience from organizing events and running a student-led education group during the pandemic. An avid cyclist and tabletop gamer, he pairs curiosity and discipline to solve interdisciplinary problems that sit at the intersection of data, design, and health.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
uid10
javascript10
visualization10
front-end-development10
visualizations10
ui-design10
react10
charting9
charts9
accessibility9
html9
css9
dashboard8
nodejs6
npm6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
getredash/redash
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 151 commits, 82 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on developing and improving the front-end components of the Redash application. Their work included implementing new chart types, specifically a horizontal bar chart, and modifying existing chart features. They also refactored and improved UI components and accessibility features. The user's contributions also extended to enhancing the user interface and fixing bugs in existing functionalities.
pythondatacompany-datavisualizebusiness-intelligence
rafawendel/rafawendel
Nov 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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