Rafael Molina
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolRafael Molina is a Principal Software Engineer based in Madrid with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure and database-backed systems. He has driven platform reliability and automation at Red Hat and helped lead infrastructure for source{d}, blending systems engineering, performance tuning, and distributed service design. His background includes AWS Database Services and hands-on MySQL/Clustering, DR strategies, and automation from roles at Amazon, CartoDB and Qindel, giving him deep operational expertise across Linux, Solaris and production monitoring stacks. Rafael frequently bridges architecture and implementation—migrating critical platforms, designing provisioning pipelines, and leading cross-team technical delivery. He holds a BS in Physics and an uncommon mix of academic rigor and practical systems craftsmanship that surfaces in careful, SLA-driven engineering decisions. Colleagues value him for turning complex operational constraints into maintainable, automated solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at Universidad Autónoma de MadridSolid State Physics, Solid State Physics at INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
English, French
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Github Skills (200)
exporter10
http-client10
geography10
operator10
geofencing10
typos10
nodejs10
amazon10
terraform-provider10
terraform10
reconcile10
ajax10
kubernetes10
location-services10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
app-sre/vegeta-k8s
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 months
rporres/container-images
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 46 branches in 4 years 2 months
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