Raimon Ràfols
Head Of Life & Digital Engagement at Allianz Technology
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRaimon Ràfols is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years in senior roles and a two-decade technical pedigree spanning mobile, backend and platform engineering. Currently Head of Life & Digital Engagement at Allianz, he has led global teams of hundreds, managed multi-million-pound budgets, and driven large-scale modernisations from monoliths to microservices in insurance and banking. He founded AXA’s Open Source Program Office and is an active contributor to projects like nlp.js, where he improved language detection and added a WebAssembly similarity implementation to boost performance. Raimon combines hands-on algorithmic work with strategic governance—embedding DevOps, security and sustainability into engineering culture across multiple countries. An Oxford executive leadership alumnus based in Barcelona, he pairs product-focused delivery with community building, having scaled a 2,000+ global engineering community and organised major engineering summits. Outside work he’s an international speaker, AngelHack alum and film photography enthusiast, hinting at a hands-on creative streak beneath his systems-first approach.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Critical Perspectives on Management, Critical Perspectives on Management at Coursera - IE Business SchoolOxford Executive Leadership Programme, Oxford Executive Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (14)
nodejs10
javascript10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
optimization9
optimisation9
webassembly9
numerical-optimization9
language-detection9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
algorithms9
googlebot7
bots7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
axa-group/nlp.js
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
An NLP library for building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and so more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Raimon primarily contributed to the `nlp.js` library by modifying existing code and implementing new functionality. They focused on refactoring the `language` and `similarity` packages, changing the allow/deny list to improve language detection, and improving the efficiency of the Levenshtein distance algorithm. The user also introduced a WebAssembly implementation of the similarity package, enhancing its performance.
entity-extractionnatural-language-processingsentiment-analysisnlpnlu
rrafols/BuildingAndroidUIWithCustomViews
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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