Summary
Rafael Galvez is a Site Reliability Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building and operating scalable, distributed systems across startups and large platforms. He has moved from front-end and backend development into reliability and production engineering roles at companies including Apli, Meta, and now Braze, bringing hands-on expertise in Go, Python, gRPC, and cloud data stores. Rafael has a strong data engineering and ML foundation—having led data modeling, scrapers, labeling tools, and ML pipelines—and designed an automated document validation pipeline that cut validation time by 80%. He combines product-minded engineering with teaching experience from a data analytics bootcamp, and is particularly motivated by applying technical systems to social problems through data-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree program, Self-Driving Cars, Nanodegree program, Self-Driving Cars at Udacity
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at 42 Silicon Valley
English, Spanish