Rafael Da Silva
Principal Software Engineer at Wavelo
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Da Silva is a Principal Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with 14 years building high-scale, production platforms for media and commerce. He architects country-scale systems—most recently payment processing pipelines for telecom built on Kafka and Temporal at Wavelo—and previously led pricing and cloud services efforts at VTEX. At Globo.com he helped deliver critical national-scale projects (election results, a high-throughput voting platform and a publishing CDN) and contributed backend improvements to the widely used open-source image service Thumbor, focusing on performance, UTF-8 URL handling and response metrics. He combines hands-on backend and performance engineering with people leadership, shipping resilient distributed systems under tight SLAs. Comfortable across the stack, Rafael brings a practical focus on observability and data correctness that often surfaces in subtle reliability and performance gains.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia da Computação Computers Engineering Software Hardware Web Databases Artificial intelligence, Engenharia da Computação Computers Engineering Software Hardware Web Databases Artificial intelligence at Sociedade Educacional de Ensino de Santa Catarina
English, brazilian potuguese
Github Skills (5)
http10
python10
url-encoding9
tornado9
metric8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thumbor/thumbor
Mar 2014 - Nov 2017
thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 93 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the `thumbor/thumbor` repository by implementing new methods within the `ThumborServiceApp` class, which likely handles the core logic of the image processing service. They fixed UTF-8 URL encoding issues within the HTTP loader, demonstrating a focus on data handling and URL manipulation. Additionally, the user contributed to the addition of metrics related to response times, status codes, and data formats. These contributions suggest expertise in backend development, performance optimization, and handling HTTP requests.
imagethumbnailglobothumborphoto
rfloriano/semantic-django
Jun 2012 - Dec 2012
A semantic app for django and virtuoso triplestore
Contributions:67 commits in 6 months
pythontriplestoredjangovirtuosodjango-admin
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