Rafael Levano
Staff Software Engineer at Betterment
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Levano is a product-focused staff software engineer in New York with 11+ years of experience building user-centered full-stack applications and 7+ years leading and mentoring engineering teams. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails and React with a disciplined emphasis on fast feedback loops, automated testing, and continuous delivery to ship high-quality, maintainable products. Rafael has a strong track record across startups and consultancies—recently specializing in early-stage product development at Able and now Betterment—while also having led mission-critical automation and reporting projects in financial services. As a leader he fosters engineering cultures of ownership, communication, and collaboration, and he’s known for bringing pragmatic technical choices informed by both product and regulatory constraints. An early adopter of modern practices, he pairs technical depth with an economist’s analytical perspective from a Mathematical Economics & Computer Science background.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematical Economics & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematical Economics & Computer Science at University of RichmondSelf Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Spanish, Portuguese, French, English
Github Skills (43)
docker-image7
cypress7
validation7
dockerfile7
rails-app7
testing-library7
oauth6
api6
nodejs6
react-testing-library6
component-testing6
form-builder6
authentication6
react-native6
react-hooks6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rafahuaman/dotfiles
Nov 2018 - Jan 2026
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
rafahuaman/rafahuaman.github.io
Mar 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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