Rafael Solar
Software Engineer at Exoscale
Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Solar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in computer architecture, hw/sw co-design, and large-scale infrastructure optimization. He has deep hands-on expertise across OS, virtualization, networking, CPU and storage layers from his research at EPFL and production work in cloud-native environments. At SOPHiA GENETICS he built observability and cost-analysis platforms that uncovered multi‑fold overprovisioning and drove actionable resource regressions, and he is now the inaugural hire building a next-generation cloud block storage product at Exoscale. Rafael blends theoretical rigor (master’s work and hardware emulation on FPGA/Chisel) with pragmatic systems engineering, from QEMU instrumentation to Kubernetes and IaC deployments. He’s comfortable moving between low-level verification and high-level operational tooling, and uniquely skilled at extracting visibility from low-visibility systems to reduce cost and improve efficiency. Based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, he pairs academic publishing and conference experience with production-grade delivery in cloud and datacenter contexts.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, High School Diploma, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Collège Sismondi, GenevaMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
English, Spanish, French, German, Polish
Github Skills (21)
benchmark9
benchmarking9
cycle9
rack8
cloud-services8
simulation8
data-center8
simulator8
vlsi8
cloud-computing8
architecture7
computer-architecture7
scale7
flutter7
api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
parsa-epfl/KnockoutKraken
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
This is the KnockoutKraken repository.
Contributions:1 release, 416 commits, 53 PRs in 4 years 6 months
flutter
parsa-epfl/qemu
Feb 2019 - Oct 2023
PARSA's fork of the official QEMU repo, with all features added for simulation.
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 8 PRs in 4 years 8 months
simulationqemu
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