Rafael Lobo is a software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently at Meta in Seattle, combining strong academic training (BSc and MSc in Computer Science from UFPE) with hands-on systems and web engine work. He became a WebKit committer in 2012 and has deep expertise in browser internals, Unix development, performance optimization, and algorithms. His career spans internships to full engineering roles at Facebook/Meta and INdT, contributing to QtWebKit and projects like WebKitNix. Passionate about AI, games, mobile and web development, he brings a blend of low-level optimization skills and front-end design sensibility to challenging problems. Notably, his background bridges academic research and production-scale engineering in large-scale consumer platforms.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
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