Rafael Guimarães
Staff Software Engineer at Arke Soluções Integradas
Bahia, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Guimarães is a Staff Software Engineer from Bahia, Brazil with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across fintech and infrastructure-focused startups and scale-ups. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at Stone, XP Inc, and Fliper—where he rose from software engineer to Head of Infrastructure—bringing strong expertise in scalable systems and operational reliability. Comfortable moving between hands-on delivery and technical strategy, he has repeatedly stepped into staff and tech lead positions to drive platform improvements and mentor engineers. A long-tenured contributor to Brazilian tech organizations and former university instructor, he blends practical product sensibility with a commitment to growing teams and knowledge-sharing. Notably, his career path shows a steady progression from early campus developer roles and consulting leadership into influential staff-level positions in finance and payments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelando, Bacharelando at UNEB
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (22)
code-intelligence9
sourcegraph8
code-search8
wordpress-plugin6
tinyproxy5
gnome5
ai5
wordpress5
gnome-shell4
html3
operating-system3
markdown3
proxy3
http3
golang2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
obrodinho/kanastra-clean-billing-system
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:52 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 16 days
obrodinho/rguimaraens.github.io
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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