Rafael Stark
Founder at STARK INFRA
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolRafael Stark is a serial founder and software entrepreneur with 11 years building fintech and consumer-facing products from Mountain View. He has launched multiple companies including Stark Bank—the first challenger bank for enterprises—and Stark Infra, delivering financial infrastructure for banks, fintechs, and corporates. Rafael combines hands-on engineering with product leadership, having led teams that built REST APIs and native mobile apps used by major Brazilian clients. He studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford after earning a bachelor's from ITA, and often applies a builder’s mindset to bridge complex financial workflows into elegant software. Less obvious: his early internships in banking risk and investment analytics shaped a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and data-driven automation in his products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITATechnology Entrepreneurship, Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford University
Portuguese, English, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
bank10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
ecdsa10
message-ui10
ecdh10
cpython9
pure-python9
api8
sdk8
api-platform7
integrations7
whatsapp7
javacard7
python7
nodejs7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rcmstark/whatsapp-ios
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
whatsappsimilarsimple-messageui-libraryandroid
HummingbirdStudio/febraban
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 months
formatsfebraban
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