Rafael Dos Santos Silva
Advogado at Machado Meyer Advogados
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Dos Santos Silva is a corporate and financial lawyer with 12 years of experience specializing in compliance, investment funds, M&A and mediation, currently serving as Advogado Pleno at Machado Meyer Advogados. He combines hands-on legal advisory for capital markets and financial institutions with operational compliance routines, having been a partner-level counsel at ETTI Partners and compliance analyst at RPS Capital. A Mackenzie law graduate now pursuing postgraduate studies in Business Law at FGV-SP, Rafael complements practice with academic engagement as a monitor at FGV and membership in research groups like CEM and GESM. He holds certifications in international M&A strategies and arbitration/mediation competitions, reflecting a practical dispute-resolution edge alongside transactional work. Unusually for a lawyer, Rafael contributes to open-source projects in Ruby and DevOps—improving Discourse’s Docker build and backend robustness—bringing automation and engineering-minded problem solving to legal operations. He is driven by ethics, excellence, innovation and collaboration, consistently seeking to modernize legal workflows in the financial sector.
12 years of coding experience
Mackenzie Presbyterian UniversityPós-graduação Lato Sensu, Direito Empresarial, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu, Direito Empresarial at FGV DIREITO SP
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (24)
ruby-rails10
docker10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
rails10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
automation10
automations10
image-optimization9
docker-compose9
build-automation9
sql9
debian8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse_docker
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
A Docker image for Discourse
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 178 commits, 180 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process for the Discourse Docker image. They implemented and refined build scripts (build.rb, auto_build.rb) to automate image creation, incorporating features like docker-squash for image optimization. They also made iterative improvements to the build process, bumping image versions, and integrating weekly public test image builds. Ruby and Docker are the primary tools.
discoursedocker-imagedocker
discourse/discourse
Aug 2015 - Jan 2023
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 366 commits, 487 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Discourse platform. Their commits include adding settings to configure session stickiness and handling Unicode text on Text Sentinels. Furthermore, they addressed database-related issues like ensuring proper XML formatting for feeds and updating data in the database. The changes demonstrate the user's focus on code robustness and platform enhancements.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
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