Rafael M
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael M is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years building high-impact Android products and platform improvements at companies from startups to scale-ups. He’s shipped features and led migrations at Clubhouse and Instacart—reducing build times, modernizing stacks (Android 14, KSP, Compose), and coordinating cross-platform design standardization for multi-million-user apps. At Big Nerd Ranch he taught Kotlin bootcamps and led Kotlin-first refactors that bridged legacy Java systems to modern code, and earlier roles gave him backend and DevOps exposure (Scala/Python, Kubernetes, gRPC). Comfortable as both IC and tech lead, he combines hands-on engineering with developer productivity work and a knack for breaking large projects into parallel streams. Notably, he’s flown nationwide to train engineers and has experience integrating Android into unusual hardware (BeagleBone/UART-I2C), reflecting a practical curiosity beyond typical app development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Texas A&M University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (83)
kotlin-multiplatform10
apollographql10
android10
kotlin10
caching10
multiplatform10
strongly-typed10
robot10
graphql-client10
graphql10
async9
connected9
compose9
image-loader9
dependency-injection9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ralphie9224/Battery-Monitor
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 7 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 4 months
diversity
ralphie9224/kchat
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:15 PRs, 36 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 1 month
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