Rafael Pacas
Business Owner at PolloPayo
City of Yonkers, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Pacas is a former New York data and software engineer with 11 years of experience who traded predictable technical roles to found and scale mission-driven businesses in El Salvador. He builds systems—technical or operational—with a focus on clarity, efficiency, and repeatability, having architected high-throughput Snowflake pipelines, dbt CI/CD, and automated ETL at scale. At PolloPayo he engineered an oil-free, high-efficiency cooking model and a brand positioned for regional expansion, and he also developed a commercial ancestral water well project in Suchitoto producing up to 60 GPM. Known for grit, rapid pattern recognition, and disciplined risk-taking, Rafael moves ideas from AI prompts and technical prototypes to real-world brands and infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering chops with operator instincts, making him a strong partner for 0-to-1 ventures and growth-stage operationalization.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at SUNY Westchester Community College
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
121reputation
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12answers
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Github Skills (88)
dbus10
cyclone10
pipeline9
api9
censorship-resistance9
gambit9
data-platform9
python8
broker8
spark8
etl7
data-pipeline7
chatbot7
data-science7
slack7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rapala61/express_auth_student_template
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 months
implementationsauthenticationoauth2auth0jwt
DoSomething/quasar
Aug 2019 - May 2021
:cyclone: The DoSomething data platform (ETL, Data Pipeline, Data Warehousing, etc.)
Contributions:18 reviews, 406 commits, 211 PRs in 1 year 9 months
pythonpipelinedata-warehousingdata-sciencedata-engineering
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