Rafael Ribeiro is a seasoned executive with over 24 years in heavy equipment and mining industries, currently leading after-sales at Grupo Tracbel. He combines deep technical roots as a mechatronics-trained engineer with commercial leadership across sales, service, parts, contracts and engineering for OEMs like John Deere and Komatsu. Rafael has a proven record of driving market share, implementing lean operations and centralized after-sales models while managing CAPEX/OPEX and large Key Account relationships. His experience spans surface and underground mining, heavy construction, forestry, agriculture and logistics, with hands-on knowledge of an extensive fleet of heavy machinery. Uncommonly for an equipment executive, he also contributes to open-source cloud storage observability (Storj), reflecting an interest in improving operational telemetry and backend performance. Educated at PUC Minas and Fundação Dom Cabral, he blends engineering rigor with executive development programs to deliver measurable business results.
11 years of coding experience
PDG, Business/Managerial Economics, PDG, Business/Managerial Economics at Fundação Dom Cabral
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rafael contributed to the development of the Storj v3 decentralized cloud object storage project, focusing on adding and modifying metrics for monitoring the performance and behavior of the storage nodes and satellite services. Their work includes adding new metrics for satellite requests, bandwidth usage, and deletion requests, as well as modifying existing metrics to include instance tags for better data analysis. The user also implemented a download limit cache for accounting within the satellite service and optimized database interactions. This suggests a focus on improving the observability, performance, and accounting functionalities of the Storj platform.
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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