Rafael Dos Santos
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Dos Santos is a software engineer with 10+ years building embedded Linux, cloud automation, and release tooling, currently contributing to Red Hat from Krakow. With an MSc in Combinatorial Optimization, he blends rigorous research thinking with practical engineering—shipping fixes and features across projects like the OpenShift installer and rpm-ostree and improving CI/CD and cloud provider integrations for large open-source stacks. He has strong cross-architecture experience (ARM, PowerPC, s390x, aarch64) and a track record of improving operational robustness, from better logging and error reporting to Python 3 compatibility fixes for BPF tooling. A fluent communicator who thrives in multidisciplinary teams, he prefers working on open-source projects and continuous professional growth while staying based in Europe.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Computer Science, Graduate, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (61)
debugging10
json10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
package-management10
qemu10
bash10
build-system10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
bpf10
terraformer10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/installer
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1320 reviews, 338 commits, 323 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rafael contributed to the OpenShift installer project by addressing bugs and enhancing infrastructure automation. Their work involved fixing issues related to VMware vSphere clusters, updating and integrating with the Azure SDK, and refactoring various aspects of the code, indicating proficiency in cloud provider integrations. Furthermore, the user improved the logging and error reporting mechanisms within the codebase, demonstrating an understanding of operational and debugging best practices.
openshift
iovisor/bcc
Feb 2017 - Sep 2020
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 18 PRs, 27 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on fixing Python 3 compatibility issues within the bcc tools. Their commits address a range of problems, including syntax errors in lambda functions, `TypeError` exceptions related to string handling, and the behavior of the `map` function in Python 3. These changes involved modifying several tools to ensure they function correctly across different Python versions and improving the robustness of the bcc tools suite.
bpflinuxmonitoringnetworking
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