Rafael Reis
Principal Engineer at Gaia Dynamics
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Reis is a Principal Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building and leading high-performance engineering teams across startups and large digital businesses. He combines hands-on full‑stack development (Python, PHP, C#, JS and more) with architecture work—advocating hexagonal/DDD designs, test culture, and robust integrations at scale. Previously a Technology Manager and Senior Software Architect, he has led hiring, refactoring, and platform integrations for products that rely on complex third‑party APIs and varied data stores. An active open-source contributor, he worked on a PHP GUI library integrating PHP and Pascal backends and adds unit tests and polished examples to his projects. Outside engineering he’s engaged in InfoSec, plays music and poker, a mix that hints at analytical creativity and risk‑aware decision making. He brings pragmatic leadership that turns legacy systems into testable, maintainable platforms while still shipping product features.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueBachelor's Degree Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Information Systems at Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
php10
front-end-development10
object-oriented-programming10
pascal10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gabrielrcouto/php-gui
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Extensionless PHP Graphic User Interface library
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 37 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily contributed to the development of a PHP-based GUI library, focusing on both the backend and frontend aspects. They implemented features such as getting and setting object properties, adding event handling, and integrating with a Lazarus (Pascal) backend. The contributions included code changes in PHP, Pascal, and related configuration, indicating a full-stack approach to building the GUI framework. Moreover, the user added unit tests and enhanced the example applications.
user-interfacegraphic-user-interfacephpguigraphic
reisraff/phulp-filter
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 4 years 3 months
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