Rafael Soares
Solutions Architect at Augment Code
Frisco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRafael Soares is a Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience modernizing enterprise Java workloads and building developer platforms that accelerate delivery from months to days. He combines deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native engineering—Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, ArgoCD, Tekton—and secure software supply chain practices like Sigstore and cosign to drive DevSecOps adoption. At Red Hat he helped customers shrink onboarding from weeks to hours with standardized golden paths and Backstage-based developer portals, and now helps developers unlock AI-assisted coding at Augment Code using LLMs and local inference stacks. Comfortable across Java, Python, and TypeScript, Rafael blends middleware roots with platform thinking to deliver scalable, customer-facing solutions. He’s passionate about open source and pragmatically applies GenAI patterns (RAG, Ollama, Hugging Face) to real business and infra use cases. Based in Frisco, Texas, he pairs technical discovery and hands-on PoCs to turn complex enterprise requirements into production-ready developer experiences.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UniCEUB - Centro Universitário de Brasília
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
410reputation
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6answers
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Github Skills (200)
cloud-platform10
operator10
continuous-testing10
infrastructure-management10
bpmn10
vagrant10
deployer10
openshift10
continuous-delivery10
kubelet10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
spring-boot10
devops10
google-cloud10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rafaeltuelho/devspaces-quarkus-crud-demo
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:85 commits, 89 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
rafaeltuelho/loan-web-client
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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