Summary
Rafael Santos is a seasoned Software Engineer Specialist based in São Paulo with over a decade of hands-on experience building distributed, scalable systems for national retailers and marketplaces. He combines deep expertise in the Java ecosystem (JSF, JPA, EJB, Spring, Java EE) with modern stacks like Golang, React and Flutter, and practical cloud/container skills validated by Red Hat OpenShift and JBoss certifications. At Luizalabs he has driven sales reconciliation, payment integrations and high-throughput services using clean architecture, RabbitMQ/PubSub, MySQL and MongoDB. His background as a Red Hat instructor and long history of freelance projects demonstrates strong communication skills and an ability to translate complex platform requirements into reliable production solutions. Rafael also brings an educator’s lens to engineering, having localized technical educational content for Khan Academy, which reflects a rare blend of enterprise-grade delivery and product-minded empathy.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Paulista
Post graduate software development specialization program at a top-ranked Brazilian university, Computer Science, Post graduate software development specialization program at a top-ranked Brazilian university, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de São Carlos
English, Portuguese