Rafael Westphal
Software Engineer at Google
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Westphal is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building production and research-driven systems across embedded devices, EDA/TCAD, networking, and large-scale cloud services, currently at Google. He brings deep C/C++ and Python expertise born from roles at Synopsys, Arista Networks and embedded work at Fundação CERTI, pairing low-level device initialization with high-level feature development and CI/production engineering. His master's research in computer architecture and memory consistency verification informs a pragmatic approach to system correctness and performance optimization. Comfortable across the stack, Rafael has implemented build systems, CI pipelines, run-time optimization libraries, and automated QA metrics—skills that make him effective at both shipping features and hardening infrastructure. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he blends academic rigor with hands-on debugging and tool-building, often surfacing subtle correctness issues before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
stackdriver10
logging9
fluentd9
td-agent8
google-cloud-platform8
telemetry7
opentelemetry6
ansible-role6
google-cloud-monitoring6
monitoring6
google5
ansible5
observability4
opentelemetry-collector4
prometheus4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/ops-agent
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 161 reviews, 77 commits in 1 year 2 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-collector
Oct 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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