Summary
Rafael H is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with nine years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems across companies like NVIDIA, Indeed, Wayfair, and Condé Nast. He excels at modernizing legacy platforms into cloud-native, event-driven architectures—demonstrated by leading migrations to Kafka, Spark, Apache Iceberg, and AWS while cutting ETL latencies from an hour to under three minutes. Rafael blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, mentoring engineers in streaming, Scala, Java, and GraphQL while defining API and frontend standards that guided cross-team migrations. He has a strong record of designing compliance and observability solutions, including an automated legal reporting system and LLM-powered prototyping for notification routing. Comfortable across backend, data engineering, and infra (Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka), he tends to surface practical trade-offs and implementation plans that align legal, privacy, and product needs. Colleagues rely on him as a technical authority who turns complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English