Summary
Rafael Gimeno is a Cloud Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of software engineering experience building scalable, event-driven systems for both enterprise and high-traffic consumer products. He currently works at Decathlon España and previously delivered cloud-native microservices and CI/CD platforms for clients like Zurich and IRIS Technology, leveraging Node.js, TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes and Google Cloud. As the creator of PixelCanvas.io he engineered a real-time WebSocket service that attracted over a million daily users at its peak, demonstrating expertise in high-concurrency architectures and ops (Redis, RabbitMQ, Terraform). He pairs a strong theoretical background in mathematics and computer science with hands-on experience across startups, sports tech, and insurance, often taking projects from prototype to production. Notably, he combines backend-first systems thinking with frontend and realtime UX concerns, enabling end-to-end ownership of complex distributed applications.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus, Mathematics and Computer Science, Erasmus, Mathematics and Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, Catalan, English, French