Rafael González
Senior Software Engineer at Blocks
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael González is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backend systems for e-commerce and marketplace platforms. He specializes in serverless and event-driven architectures on AWS, with hands-on expertise in PHP, Node.js, Python, and Go, and a strong track record of refactoring monoliths into resilient microservices. At companies like Rakuten, NewStore, and Jay he designed robust payment and order-processing pipelines, implemented multi-tier error handling, and drove CI/CD and Kubernetes migrations to improve reliability and operational efficiency. He also contributes to open-source tooling—having improved a Symfony bundle generator—and brings practical DevOps experience shaping cost-optimization pipelines that turn AWS signals into actionable fixes. Based in Berlin, Rafael combines deep technical craft with mentorship and an appetite for continuous learning, often bridging backend services with micro-frontend integrations to deliver end-to-end solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PlatziBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad de Pinar del Rio
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
php10
symfony10
phpunit10
symfony-ux10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
dependency-injection8
configuration-management7
sylius6
doctrine-orm6
documentation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sensiolabs/SensioGeneratorBundle
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Generates Symfony bundles, entities, forms, CRUD, and more...
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on enhancing the bundle generator within the `sensiogeneratorbundle` repository. Their contributions involved refining the `generate:bundle` command, modifying the generator's logic, and updating test cases. The changes included adding features for shared bundles, adjusting the generation process, and fixing documentation, as shown through code modifications and commit messages like "more on test" and "droped shared element from parameters array". This indicates a focus on improving the tool's functionality and usability.
crudsymfony-bundlephpsymfonybundle
rafix/cvrf
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:81 commits in 7 months
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