Summary
Raphael Barreto is a Staff Software Engineer from Sergipe, Brazil with over a decade of experience building backend systems for fintech using Ruby, Elixir and cloud-native tools. He has repeatedly grown from individual contributor to tech lead, architecting payment and card-processing pipelines that reduced operation times by ~60% and eliminated manual logistics workflows. Raphael combines hands-on refactoring and test-coverage improvements with people leadership—mentoring engineers, redesigning hiring processes, and acting as interim tech lead for multi-engineer teams. He founded a consultancy focused on recruitment and onboarding, reflecting a strong interest in team-building as well as code quality. Comfortable across AWS, Kafka, Terraform and CI/CD, he thrives on solving large-scale data and reliability challenges while quickly learning new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Ciências da Computação, Bachelor's degree Ciências da Computação at Universidade Federal de Sergipe
Portuguese, English