Summary
Rafael L is a technical leader and backend engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems across commercial real estate, consulting, AI, and enterprise platforms. He has led globally distributed teams to deliver mission-critical SaaS products, high-volume data integrations, and real-time systems, combining hands-on backend work in C#, .NET, Node.js and Python with cloud-native practices on Azure, AWS and GCP. Known for coaching-driven management, he builds healthy remote engineering cultures focused on clarity, trust, and continuous improvement while driving observability, CI/CD and clean architecture. Rafael has a track record of stabilizing financial synchronization and ETL ecosystems for thousands of customers and delivering ML/AI-backed services and integrations. He pairs product-facing collaboration with technical strategy, removing blockers and improving delivery predictability across teams. Based in Panama, he blends deep operational experience with a persistent focus on mentoring engineers and practical, measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bilingual Commerce Degree, Accounting and Finance, Bilingual Commerce Degree, Accounting and Finance at Academia de Matematicas y Comercio Jose Zambrano Rojas
Master of Computer Management, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Computer Management, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Universidad Latina de Panamá
Interactive Programming in Python (Coursera), Computer Software Engineering, Interactive Programming in Python (Coursera), Computer Software Engineering at Rice University
Crafting Quality Code on Python, Computer Software Engineering, Crafting Quality Code on Python, Computer Software Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Spanish