Rafael Garcia-suarez
Staff Software Engineer at Gorgias
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRafael Garcia-suarez is a Staff Software Engineer with 24 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, payment platforms, and reliability organizations across startups and large enterprises. He helped transform Booking.com from a 20-developer startup into a global commerce platform, leading the design of a PCI-, SOx- and PSD2-compliant worldwide payments system and founding its SRE organization. More recently he led Payment Acceptance work at Airwallex—helping the company integrate as a principal member of the Visa network—and then scaled Spendesk’s infrastructure before joining Gorgias. Rafael blends strategic product thinking with pragmatic execution, routinely shipping container-native, microservice architectures on Kubernetes, Kafka, and cloud platforms. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex regulatory and operational constraints into practical, auditable systems. Based in Paris, he pairs deep systems craftsmanship (with roots in Perl and OS tooling) with a long track record of leading cross-functional engineering teams.
24 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Engineering, Engineer's degree Engineering at Centrale LyonLycée Massena, Nice
French, English
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Github Skills (104)
libgit210
dynamic-languages10
perl10
integrations10
publish10
hacklang10
git-lfs10
mailing10
shell10
extjs10
git-addons10
binary-serialization10
database-access10
macros10
shorturl10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rgs/cherrymaint
Apr 2010 - Jun 2012
Contributions:39 commits in 2 years 2 months
pickcherrystatuscherry-pickpatches
rgs/Test-LongString
Nov 2007 - May 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 years 7 months
stringsequalityperldiagnosticsperl-module
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