Rafael Meneses
Payments Engineering Director at Automattic
Ceará, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Meneses is a Staff Software Engineer and team lead with 11 years in IT and eight years focused on software engineering, currently leading Gamma at Automattic from Brazil. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Python and PHP with recent experience managing cross-functional teams, including marketing and hiring, while directing IT for an outsourcing firm serving clients like Petco and Lettuce Grow. Rafael has a strong interest in distributed systems, code quality, testing, and the software development lifecycle, and he actively mentors engineers to raise engineering standards. His background spans backend work on large platforms (Tumblr teams and payments) and running delivery for multiple client projects, giving him both product-scale and services-oriented perspective. He holds an MBA in Software Engineering and is known for translating operational needs into reliable, testable systems—often surfacing process improvements that go beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
woocommerce10
javascript10
wordpress10
nodejs10
ecommerce10
redux10
terraform-provider10
php10
aws10
projeto10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
lambda9
terraform9
resharper9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PHPcomRapadura/PELEJA
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Sistema de gestão de eventos da comunidade PHP com Rapadura
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 months
php
rtio/lightning-image
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
Get lightning fast information about images with little resources.
Contributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 34 PRs in 4 months
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