Rafael Lucena
Senior Web Developer at Shopify
Manilva, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Lucena is a senior full-stack web developer with 12 years of experience, currently driving frontend and platform work at Shopify with a strong emphasis on performance, simplicity, and reusable code. He blends modern JavaScript (React, Redux, Next.js) with Ruby on Rails and DevOps practices (Kubernetes, Redis, Kafka) to deliver scalable, low-latency applications and has led teams to consolidate mobile-first web platforms that improved delivery speed and SEO. As a former team lead at BetVictor he designed a centralized authentication service in TypeScript, steered an incremental migration from Backbone.js to a PRPL-pattern React architecture, and reduced technical debt through CI/automation improvements. He’s comfortable across languages and stacks—from PHP/Laravel and hybrid mobile to Android—and contributes to deployment tooling in open-source projects, focusing on smarter dependency management and deployment scripts. Based in Andalusia, he embraces remote collaboration and continuous learning, often seeking pragmatic solutions that balance UX, data usage, and operational efficiency.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Engineering in Computer Systems, 8.7/10, Technical Engineering in Computer Systems, 8.7/10 at University of CordobaComputer Science Engineering, 8/10, Computer Science Engineering, 8/10 at University of Córdoba
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
php10
composer10
deployment-automation10
configuration-management9
git7
rspec6
heroku6
html6
css6
capistrano6
rspec-rails6
testing6
ruby6
carrierwave6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rocketeers/rocketeer
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Send your projects up in the clouds
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on updating the project's deployment and configuration scripts. Their contributions included adding and adjusting Composer self-update functionality, and modifying the remote configuration file. These changes indicate a focus on optimizing the deployment process and dependency management within the Rocketeer framework. The user also made minor code style adjustments, replacing spaces with tabs, and fixing path issues.
cloudsaws
rporrasluc/device_detector
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
DeviceDetector is a precise and fast user agent parser and device detector written in Ruby
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
device-detectoragentbrowser-detectionrubydetector
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