Rafael Dohms
Distinguished Engineer at SurveyMonkey
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Dohms is a distinguished engineer and systems architect with 16+ years of experience leading cloud-native, streaming and microservice architectures at SurveyMonkey and previously Usabilla. He blends deep hands-on engineering—rooted in two decades starting with PHP—with cross-cutting skills in team building, developer workflows, QA and architecture governance to drive scalable product visions. A seasoned open source contributor, Rafael has improved major PHP ecosystem projects and Composer/Packagist tooling while also enhancing Symfony integration and Bootstrap bundles. He’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers, running guilds and technical design forums, and speaking at conferences worldwide, having founded multiple PHP user groups in Brazil and AmsterdamPHP. Rare among architects, he actively codes and shipped both backend features and frontend UX polish in notable repos, giving him practical empathy for delivery trade-offs.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Project Management, MBA Project Management at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasEngineer Computer Engeneering, Engineer Computer Engeneering at UniCEUB - Centro Universitário de Brasília
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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4answers
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Github Skills (36)
dependency-manager10
react-components10
bootstrap10
package-management10
back-end-development10
css10
command-line-interface10
react-component10
php10
packagist10
component-kit10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
command-line10
html10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
braincrafted/bootstrap-bundle
Oct 2013 - Aug 2014
BraincraftedBootstrapBundle integrates Bootstrap into Symfony2 by providing templates, Twig extensions, services and commands.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on enhancing the Symfony2-based application's frontend and form functionalities. Their contributions include updating the pagination component to Bootstrap 3 standards, adding translation support for flash messages, and implementing features to improve form element rendering. They also developed a button group and added support for appending buttons to input fields, showing a strong understanding of Bootstrap integration within the Symfony framework.
bootstrapsymfonytwigtwig-extension
composer/packagist
Sep 2012 - Feb 2015
Package Repository Website - try https://packagist.com if you need your own -
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the development of the Packagist website, focusing on the back-end logic. Their work involved setting up controller code and starting the testing phase, specifically related to the feed functionality. The user implemented features for caching and optimized performance by adding etags and last modified headers. They also added queries for specific feed types, finalized feed calls, and configured parameters for feed item counts.
package-repositorypackagistphp
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