Rafael Souza
Safety Risk Management Specialist at Metrolinx
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRafael Souza is a data-driven Safety Risk Management Specialist and business analytics professional with 11 years of experience building cloud-powered analytics, BI platforms, and operational improvements across retail, logistics, and transit. With a MASc in Industrial Engineering from Dalhousie, he has led end-to-end deployments—most notably a Google Cloud data mart for Sobeys—and automated ETL and reporting workflows using BigQuery, Cloud Run, Python and Docker. He pairs hands-on engineering skills (Power BI, Power Apps, Tableau, SQL, Python) with practical ML and root-cause analysis to turn safety and operational data into actionable risk controls and efficiency gains. Rafael has deep cross-functional experience from founding a consulting practice to supporting AWS analytics customers, and he’s known for driving 20–30% efficiency gains through low-cost automation. Now specializing in transit safety analytics at Metrolinx, he focuses on preemptive risk identification by embedding data-driven methods into risk assessment frameworks.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Industrial Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências Gerenciais de São GotardoMaster of Applied Science - MASc, Industrial Engineering, Master of Applied Science - MASc, Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie UniversityEnsino Médio, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Ensino Médio, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Colégio Árcade de Ibiá
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github contributions (5)
rafwell/laravel-boleto
Jul 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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rafwell/laravel-simplegrid
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
A simple component for generating powerful grids with Laravel.
Contributions:114 commits, 6 PRs, 106 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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