Rafael Petry
Principal Software Engineer at point.me
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Petry is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of professional experience and a decade-plus track record leading architecture, delivery, and technical teams across startups and scale-ups. He has repeatedly shipped complex, user-facing platforms—from founding the engineering function at withco and bootstrapping VTS Market/Marketplace to co-founding a YC-backed startup—while simplifying hard business problems into pragmatic, maintainable systems. Rafael specializes in event-driven architectures, identity and integration strategies, and developer practices (Kafka, OpenID Connect, trunk-based development, consumer-driven contracts) that reduce risk and accelerate delivery. He pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership—scaling teams, processes, and roadmaps that support rapid growth and zero-downtime migrations. Based in New York, he combines research-driven roots (MSc in Computer Science) with broad consultancy experience at ThoughtWorks across multiple domains and countries. An underrated strength is his knack for delivering incremental, high-impact refactors that unlock new product opportunities without disrupting operations.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
S23, S23 at Y CombinatorB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Universidade Federal de PelotasM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (43)
ruby9
relic9
linux9
homebrew9
package-manager8
macos8
heading8
location-based7
apm-agent7
ruby-client7
location7
agent7
deprecated7
social-media7
geocoding6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelpetry/active-rest-client
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
api-clientapirailsrubyactiverecord
rafaelpetry/homebrew-core
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
beersformulaehomebrewpackage-manager
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