Summary
Rafael Klaser is a release manager and seasoned software engineer with 12+ years at IBM and two decades of hands-on experience building and architecting systems since co-founding DBKi Informática. He holds a Master's from USP focused on mechatronics and autonomous vehicles and did research in computer vision, autonomous navigation and embedded systems—bringing a hardware-aware perspective to software delivery. At IBM he progressed from Java developer and L2 service support to lead engineer, backend developer and now release manager, consistently operating at the intersection of development, QA and operational integration. Rafael combines entrepreneurial experience in consulting and project coordination with deep technical fluency in back-end and full-stack Java environments, enabling pragmatic architecture and quality audits. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, he leverages lab-grade robotics research insights to optimize complex release pipelines and cross-disciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
University of São Paulo
English, Italian