Rafael Santos - Software Engineer at Envato

Rafael Santos

Software Engineer at Envato

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Rafael Santos is a seasoned Software Engineer with 13 years of web development experience and a strong focus on Ruby on Rails for the past decade. He has shipped APIs and backend systems across startups and established companies, currently contributing to Envato after five years at Flippa. Rafael is passionate about clean, well-tested code—favoring RSpec contexts and FactoryGirl over fixtures—and enjoys leveraging Ruby’s metaprogramming to build DSLs and elegant abstractions. His background spans high-throughput communications APIs for payment and vending systems, scalable Heroku deployments, and hands-on work with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and cloud storage. Based in Melbourne, he combines pragmatic engineering with a history of rapid MVP delivery in agile teams, and a practical appreciation for monitoring and scaling production services.

13 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

Data Recovery & Computer Forensics Certificate, IT, Forensics, Law, Data Recovery & Computer Forensics Certificate, IT, Forensics, Law at Highline Community College

Studies for Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Studies for Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Paraná

Federal University of Technology – Paraná

Portuguese, English

Github Skills (55)

sidekiq10

robot10

transition10

jruby10

simulator9

robotics9

simulation9

fsm-library9

ruby9

css9

mongoid9

robot-simulator9

state-machine9

que9

web-development8

Programming languages (6)

CJavaScriptHTMLRubyMarkdownPython

Github contributions (5)

RafaelChefe/toy_robot

Sep 2015 - Dec 2020

Toy Robot Simulator coding challenge

Contributions:115 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 5 years 4 months

roboticspythontoysimulationrobot

RafaelChefe/config_files

Sep 2015 - Feb 2021

Contributions:6 pushes in 5 years 6 months

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