Rafael Soares dos Santos
Software Engineer at remoteoss
Spain, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorRafael Soares is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Madrid with 11 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems, primarily using Ruby on Rails and Elixir. He has progressed from hands-on development to leading architecture and domain design, most recently shaping cross-team event-driven architectures and Kafka event patterns as Lead Technical Architect at Smart Pension. Rafael excels at applying Domain-Driven Design, event storming, and Conway’s Law to align team topology with system scalability and delivery. He has led multi-discipline teams, improved API-as-product strategies, and driven standards for event sourcing, testing, and versioning. Comfortable across stacks and cloud deployments, he brings both technical depth and people leadership—mentoring tech leads and refining onboarding and review processes. Rafael is open to international opportunities but requires visa sponsorship to relocate.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
hanami10
ruby-application10
rio9
api9
web-application9
que9
hotel-booking8
entity8
vcr8
repository-pattern8
backend8
ruby8
voc7
javascript7
infrastructure7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kusudamaco/hachi-web
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 53 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
apiweb-clientbackendnodejsbackend-api
Robolia/tic-tac-toe-elixir
May 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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