Rafael Ferreira
Senior Software Engineer at Mercado Libre
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Ferreira is a senior software engineer based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with nine years of professional experience and a strong track record building cloud-native platforms and high-throughput services. He has driven developer productivity and operational excellence—most recently at Mercado Libre and previously by designing an Internal Developer Platform, Kubernetes operators, and Golang microservices at Americanas S.A. Rafael excels in reliability and performance work, having engineered APIs and event-driven payment services that supported tens of millions of users while leveraging monitoring stacks like Prometheus and Grafana. He pairs backend systems expertise (Golang, SQL, caching) with DevOps discipline, security-conscious design, and a focus on testability and documentation. Known for fostering developer communities through talks and writing, he brings both hands-on engineering and developer-first product thinking. Continuously curious, he emphasizes learning something new every day and applies that curiosity to practical, scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, Italian
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Github Skills (87)
bot-platform10
crypto9
golang9
trading9
beautify9
trading-bot9
cryptocurrency9
visualization9
binance9
react9
bitcoin9
twirp9
monorepo8
api8
animation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelrubbioli/expenses
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Graphql API for calculating expenses
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years
apigraphql-apiexpensesnodejsgraphql
rafaelrubbioli/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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