Rafael Da Silva
Frontend Engineer at Holepunch
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Da Silva is a frontend engineer with 13 years of software experience and over a decade focused on crafting polished user interfaces and occasionally shipping full‑stack features. He champions automation and test‑driven development to deliver high‑quality, maintainable code and has contributed UI fixes and UX improvements to notable open‑source projects like Rocket.Chat. Comfortable across modern JS ecosystems (including Meteor, React, Redux) and CSS, Rafael has held senior roles at companies across Brazil and internationally and now works at Holepunch. A regular conference and meetup speaker who enjoys sharing knowledge, he pairs practical engineering with a creative side — he’s a self‑described "chiptune sommelier" who brings curiosity and a community mindset to engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnólogo, Telecomunicações, Tecnólogo, Telecomunicações at Instituto Federal Sul-Riograndense
English
Stackoverflow
5reputation
846reached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (15)
css10
javascript10
meteor10
front-end-development10
chat9
realtime8
html7
emberjs6
asynchronous6
ember-data6
php6
jquery6
android6
google-maps6
android-layout6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the user interface of Rocket.Chat, focusing on bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. Their work included correcting the formatting of time display, improving the appearance of the header menu icon, and adding scroll bars to modal windows. Additionally, the user modified the handling of mentions and links within message content. They demonstrated skills in JavaScript and CSS, as well as experience with the Meteor framework.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
rssilva/twitter-who-to-follow
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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