Raphael Rafatpanah
Frontend Software Architect at Make Us Visible
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRaphael Rafatpanah is a Frontend Software Architect with 11 years of experience crafting robust, user-focused web experiences and leading cross-functional teams from prototype to production. He blends functional programming sensibilities with pragmatic engineering—evident from building server-driven UIs with Astro and earlier work in OCaml and ReScript—to reduce errors and improve maintainability. At Wayfair and Grubhub he led major rewrites and migrations, drove measurable business impact (including a 20% conversion lift), and instituted collaborative practices like “Graph Gazing” that improved operational visibility. He’s built scalable services, replayable test infrastructure, and frontend platforms while mentoring dozens of engineers and standardizing TypeScript patterns across organizations. Comfortable in startup and enterprise settings, he has also taken products from MVP to $1M MRR as a former CTO, combining product instincts with hands-on engineering. Based in Worcester, MA, Raphael favors elegant, algebraic approaches to reduce runtime failures and make complex systems easier to reason about.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at University of Connecticut
English, javascript
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Github Skills (128)
starter-kit10
declarative10
bucklescript10
javascript10
esbuild10
directives10
app-shell10
typescript10
futures10
reason-react10
user-interface10
emotion10
sliders10
frontend10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
persianturtle/rescript-react-boilerplate
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
An opinionated app shell for ReScript & React progressive web apps
Contributions:1 review, 150 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years
reactemotionsassstyled-ppxesbuild
persianturtle/reasonml-learning
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Meetings at Wayfair introducing ReasonML
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
bucklescriptreason-reactagdamojoreasonml
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