Raphael Amorim is a Stockholm-based software engineer with 12 years of experience building performant web and full-stack systems for companies like Viaplay, Spotify and GoDaddy. He brings deep frontend expertise—React internals, custom renderers and WebGL/canvas UIs—as evidenced by his open-source work on react-ape, a tiny React renderer, and contributions to the core facebook/react repo. At Viaplay he introduced Rust into production, created internal tooling and taught workshops while still shipping backend and React frontend features. He has a strong performance and tooling mindset from earlier roles at Globo.com where he drove significant TTFB and render-time improvements and built reusable tooling. A frequent conference speaker on WebGL, Clojure and modern JavaScript, Raphael combines systems thinking with hands-on implementation across browser, server and GPU-accelerated UI stacks.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Information Technology, Associate's degree, Information Technology at Instituto Infnet
Contributions:4 releases, 275 commits, 88 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Raphael contributed to a React renderer for low-memory applications. Their work involved adding and studying a tiny React renderer as a case study, which included code modifications within the `ReactTinyFiber.js` and `mount.js` files to implement the renderer. This involved implementing core features like create instance, append initial child, and other methods associated with a React Fiber renderer, demonstrating their understanding of React's rendering process. The user's work suggests familiarity with React's internal workings and renderer implementation.
🦍• React Renderer to build UI interfaces using canvas/WebGL (TV and Hardware-Accelerated GPU development based)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 262 commits, 71 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily contributed to the development of a React-based UI renderer for the React Ape project. They focused on implementing core components such as View, Text, Image and ListView and setting up navigation. The work involved creating and integrating custom components for rendering React elements within the canvas environment. They were also responsible for setting up a demo for the project.
gpuhardwarereact-rendererwebglreact
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