Rafael Escobar
Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Escobar is a pragmatic backend software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building resilient systems at Reddit after multiple impactful roles in fintech and payments. He specializes in Golang, distributed microservices, PostgreSQL, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Terraform), with a track record of moving legacy monoliths to event-driven architectures and improving operational observability. Rafael has hands-on experience designing payment and treasury services using Temporal for secure, idempotent workflows, and has led certification and anti-corruption efforts with Brazilian financial registries. He mentors junior engineers, ran extensive technical interviews to grow teams, and pairs strong implementation skills with a habit of automating repetitive operational tasks. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he combines research-rooted analytical experience (Matlab/statistics) with practical product delivery and a continuous appetite for new challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at UNIOESTENorth Paraná University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
javascript6
enzyme6
jestjs6
webpack6
react6
lambda-functions2
serverless1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Rafael-Escobar/Rafael-Escobar
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Rafael-Escobar/transaction-manager
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
microservice for manage transactions
Contributions:29 PRs, 38 pushes, 16 branches in 11 days
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