Rafael Piloto
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Piloto is a software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and robotics-focused ML systems, currently contributing to Google Cloud's VM Services. He has a track record of shipping reliability and automation improvements—intern projects reduced manual configuration errors to zero, cut rollout time by days, and boosted integration-test efficiency by ~70%. Rafael blends systems engineering (Golang, C++, Spanner, Kubernetes) with applied ML and robotics (PyTorch, RL, computer vision), having developed hyperparameter tuning and gesture-recognition pipelines for Air Force Research Laboratory projects. At Emory he supported a maker space, taught workshops, and resolved hardware/software issues, reflecting a practical, hands-on approach to technology and STEM education equity. Known among peers for a playful GitHub bio—"Where good food becomes bad code"—he pairs technical rigor with a collaborative, community-focused mindset.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at New Albany High SchoolTom Glenn High SchoolStony Point High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Emory UniversityBig Spring High School
American Sign Language, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
55reputation
4kreached
2answers
5questions
Github Skills (57)
calculator10
scrum10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
computer-vision9
image-processing9
audio-processing9
video-processing9
backend-template9
opencv8
flutter8
deep-learning8
perception8
android8
pipeline-framework8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RafaelPiloto10/Project-Euler
Dec 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 4 months
NLP-Suite/nlp-suite-runner
Apr 2024 - Feb 2026
Install and run the NLP Suite using the NLP Suite Runner
Contributions:2 releases, 9 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 10 months
natural-language-processing
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