Rafael Richard
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRafael Richard is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and two decades of hands-on coding across languages and domains. He has driven backend and DevOps initiatives at companies from Gameloft to Shopify and Veeva, specializing in scalable RESTful APIs, microservices, and large-scale data integrations. Known for refactoring large legacy codebases and automating developer workflows, he has led migrations to Docker/Kubernetes and built data-mining solutions for big regression datasets. Rafael combines deep C/C++ and Python expertise with modern web stacks (Django, Vue/Backbone) and a pragmatic focus on CI/CD and developer productivity. He regularly coaches teams in agile practices and code quality, earning a reputation as the "refactory" guru who balances engineering rigor with shipping features. Based in Montreal, he writes about code, languages and cultural differences, reflecting a curious, language-agnostic approach to solving problems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Systems Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Systems Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (42)
cjs9
react-modal9
decoder8
sidekiq8
shopify-api8
shopify7
encoder7
ruby7
live-preview7
ubuntu7
gnome7
slug7
python-bindings6
jruby6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelxy/timesheet-generator
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 10 months
rafaelxy/tictail
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.