Rafael Cunha
Co-Founder at Revista FotoVolt
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Cunha is a Full Stack Developer based in São Paulo with over a decade of hands-on experience building web and cloud-native applications. He specializes in front-end engineering with TypeScript, React and Next.js, paired with backend work in Python microservices and PHP (Laravel/CodeIgniter), and strong AWS expertise across Lambda, EC2, API Gateway and S3. Rafael has driven componentization with Storybook, implemented CI/CD and APM monitoring, and helped deliver a Data Lake architecture that won his team the 2024 CNseg Insurance Innovation Award. He contributes to open-source projects like Sunflower Land, improving UX features and fixing TypeScript issues, showing a practical eye for both user-facing polish and backend robustness. Comfortable shifting between hands-on coding and technical leadership, he has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks and shipping measurable product improvements. His background in operations and early entrepreneurship gives him a pragmatic view of performance, deployment and business-facing engineering tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
Engenheiro Eletricista, Engenharia Elétrica, Engenheiro Eletricista, Engenharia Elétrica at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Gestão Estratégica e Econômica de Negócios, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Gestão Estratégica e Econômica de Negócios at Fundação Getulio Vargas
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
game-development9
user-interface9
backend7
back-end-development7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sunflower-land/sunflower-land
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Sunflower Land game. This involved implementing features like a toast notification system, crafting/selling functionality, and a withdraw feature. The contributions also include fixing TypeScript errors and adjusting UI messages, indicating a focus on both frontend and backend development within the project's context.
silici0/GoogleParserFeed
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
Parse google merchant feed to array PHP
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
phptoarray
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