Rafael Santana
Senior Software Engineer at Nubank
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Santana is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building high-scale, resilient systems at Nubank and holding an MSc in Computer Engineering from UFPE. He has strong hands-on expertise in backend services, machine learning model training and evaluation, and integrating multimodal LLMs into production features from his recent role at UOL EdTech. Rafael combines observability best practices—structured logging, Grafana dashboards and automated alerts—with robust CI/CD pipelines and API-driven architectures to keep services reliable under load. His background includes performance optimization (e.g., 70% query speedups for e-commerce reconciliation) and modern frontend integrations across Vue, React and React Native, showing a full-stack fluency. Comfortable running technical spikes and user interviews, he bridges product and engineering to turn research and ML capabilities into measurable product impact. Based in Greater Recife, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic delivery, often surfacing non-obvious efficiency improvements in legacy systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Centro de Informática UFPEBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
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Github Skills (42)
cookbook10
facebook-messenger10
translation10
elixir10
messenger9
cakephp9
facebook9
php9
nodejs9
chat9
documentation9
projeto8
donation8
ioredis8
electron7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jrafaelsantana/jrafaelsantana.github.io
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
jrafaelsantana/Meat
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Curso de anuglar
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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