Rafael Mello is a seasoned software engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across payments, e‑commerce and cybersecurity domains. He brings strong backend expertise in Java, Go and Python, plus hands‑on work with AWS serverless patterns, Terraform, Docker and CI/CD pipelines. Rafael has contributed to high‑availability platforms at companies like B2W, Ame Digital and iFood, and has experience integrating messaging and edge solutions (Lambda@edge, SQS, CloudFront) for low-latency systems. He has led teams and fostered engineering practices such as pair programming and rigorous code review while also shipping production modules in C++ and Node.js. Comfortable moving between legacy modernization and greenfield services, he combines practical delivery focus with a curiosity for new architectures. Outside the obvious, he has a history of open-source initiative thinking—having driven improvements and tooling in past roles to ease maintenance of critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certified in IT, Information Technology, Certified in IT, Information Technology at Colégio Graham Bell
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Centro Universitário UniCarioca
Contributions:21 PRs, 28 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 10 months
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