Rafael Santos
Tech Lead at IriusRisk
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Santos is a seasoned tech lead and full-stack engineer based in São Paulo with over two decades of coding experience and a decade of formal industry practice, currently leading a squad at IriusRisk where he was the first hired developer and helped shape the platform from early product design through major migrations. He blends deep Java/Spring expertise with DevOps, TDD and automation to deliver clean, high-performance code that balances quality, time and cost. Rafael has driven integrations (JIRA, Draw.io, OTM), report generation, rule-engine work with Drools, and DIY tooling like an IriusRisk CLI and an AI-assisted MCP server. His background includes large-scale e-commerce projects, international assignments, and mobile apps, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack mindset coupled with hands-on architectural leadership. An advocate of Clean Code since the 1990s, he still codes daily while steering technical direction and mentoring newer engineers.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Hipermedia, Master's degree Hipermedia at USP - Universidade de São PauloETE "Lauro Gomes"
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
topera/zetta-playlist
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 14 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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topera/index
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:48 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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