Rafael Werneck
Senior Prototyping Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Werneck is a Senior Prototyping Architect at AWS Envision Engineering in São Paulo with over 18 years in software and 12 years focused on cloud and product engineering. He designs and leads customer-facing prototypes with a strong emphasis on Machine Learning and Generative AI, translating research into tangible solutions for AWS customers. His background spans large-scale consumer platforms and databases—contributing to Amazon RDS Performance Insights metering and supporting Amazon’s retail expansion in Brazil—giving him practical experience in observability, billing systems, and high-traffic services. Earlier roles across education tech and classifieds exposed him to adaptive learning at scale and mobile development, which informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to prototyping. Rafael holds an MSc in Informatics and pairs academic rigor with hands-on implementation, often publishing technical content to demystify emerging AI capabilities.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (20)
dynamodb10
lambda10
secrets-manager9
backend9
frontend8
api-gateway8
aws8
elemental7
javascript7
machine-learning7
clock7
amazon-translate6
bank4
python3
classification3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/liveness-detection
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Backend and a JavaScript frontend of a liveness detection application.
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
backendfrontendjavascriptapi-gatewaycloudfront
aws-solutions/liveness-detection-framework
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
A framework that helps you implement liveness detection mechanisms into your applications by means of an extensible architecture on AWS.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 9 commits in 4 months
awsmachine-learning
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