Summary
Rafael Valle is a Head of Engineering and systems-focused software leader with 11+ years building embedded systems, mobile apps, IoT, and scalable backend platforms across public-safety, defense-adjacent, and regulated environments. He currently designs counter-UAS systems that fuse multi-RF sensor pipelines, ML workflows, edge compute, and embedded platforms to turn raw sensor data into operational intelligence. Rafael moves seamlessly between low-level Android/embedded OS work and higher-level cloud/ML pipelines, shipping production software used at scale while mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. His career blends high-stakes reliability and security with product-driven prototyping—evident in side projects like cinematic AI link-in-bio and AI-enabled developer tooling that showcase rapid idea validation through execution. Based in Miami, he is comfortable operating where technical complexity, policy, and real-world constraints intersect and aims to transition from engineering leader to founder/CEO of mission-driven technology.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico
English, Spanish