Rafael Leite
Founding Engineer at Metriport (YC S22)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRafael Leite is a founding engineer and senior technology leader based in San Francisco with over 20 years of hands-on full‑stack experience and 11 years in senior roles scaling cloud-native, microservices-based platforms. He blends product-minded engineering with people leadership, having led organizations from early startups and co‑founded IoT and proptech ventures to managing a 35-person engineering business unit that delivered high‑impact, revenue-generating products. Deeply technical in Typescript, Java, React and AWS, he pairs architecture and platform expertise with operational rigor around scalability and high availability. Comfortable moving between code and strategy, Rafael has a track record of hiring, mentoring managers, and aligning engineering work to business outcomes. A builder at heart, he repeatedly turns ambiguous problems into production systems — including hardware‑backed inventory platforms and large distributed microservice landscapes — showing an uncommon mix of low‑level systems experience and cloud-era engineering.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Pos-ECM / UFSC
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
pii10
postgresql10
sap10
http-client10
hipaa10
wearables10
medical10
collaboration10
javascript10
browser10
mattermost10
pouchdb10
api10
golang10
monorepo10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
metriport/metriport
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Metriport is an open-source universal API for healthcare data.
Contributions:3994 reviews, 99 commits, 2139 PRs in 2 months
apihealthhipaauniversal-apiwearables
metriport/fhir-server
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
FHIR server for Metriport - an open-source universal API for healthcare data.
Contributions:46 reviews, 106 PRs, 111 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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