Raphaelย Melo
Advisory Research Software Engineer at IBM
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolRaphael Melo is an advisory research software engineer with 15 years of experience and 11+ years focused on backend and research engineering, currently leading architecture for AI and knowledge-driven platforms at IBM from Rio de Janeiro. He designs production ontologies, builds high-performance distributed systems, and delivers multi-cloud deployments (OpenShift/Kubernetes) for domains ranging from materials and drug discovery to financial risk. Raphael led the Discovery Workbench backend and helped ship IBMโs Safer Materials Advisor, contributing to its 2025 Sustainable Innovation Prize, while also creating Helm-based automation and CI/CD pipelines. He combines deep Python and graph/knowledge-system expertise with hands-on performance engineering and mentorship, and has a masters in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning that informs his practical approach to semantic modeling and provenance.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado Representaรงรฃo de Conhecimento e Raciocรญnio, Mestrado Representaรงรฃo de Conhecimento e Raciocรญnio at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
English
Github Skills (19)
charts8
conversions8
helm7
vmware7
relational-algebra7
rdf6
data-lineage6
linked-data6
kubernetes6
nodejs5
nodejs-library5
machine-learning5
graph5
data-integrity5
python5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raphael-melo/fgxgm-SecurityCheckSample
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
SecurityCheckSample
Contributions:14 PRs, 13 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
raphael-melo/programming_challenges
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 17 issues in 21 days
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