Rafael Zimmermann
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Zimmermann is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven backend systems across e-commerce and travel platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python and Go, and routinely designs microservices on Kubernetes using Kafka, Redis and GCP/AWS to deliver scalable, low-latency features. At trivago he translated ML models into production ranking and user-profiling services, collaborating closely with data scientists to operationalize streaming inference and real-time personalization. Now at Shopify he continues to focus on resilient distributed systems and observability, bringing practical experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Hadoop and BigTable. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering trade-offs that balance performance, scalability and maintainability. Based in Valencia, he pairs a strong backend systems pedigree with a curiosity for new technologies and cross-functional collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer, Computer Engineer at Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
16reputation
31reached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (77)
python10
big-data10
sql10
inject10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-flink10
wallet9
instrumentation9
sneakers9
chalk8
linux8
metaprogramming8
ruby7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelzimmermann/rafaelzimmermann.github.io
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
rafaelzimmermann/alarm-system
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:150 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
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