Raphael Randschau
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Randschau is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building distributed, cloud-native systems and developer tooling across startups and large tech firms. Based in British Columbia, he has driven backend, DevOps, and CLI/cluster features at companies like Stripe, Lightning AI, and AWS, and helped launch services such as Managed Prometheus and cluster management for PyTorch Lightning. Comfortable across languages and layers—from Go and Java to Ruby and JavaScript—he has contributed to prominent open-source projects including Terraform, Homebrew, Pion WebRTC and Foreman, often improving real-world operability and cloud integrations. Known for pragmatic systems thinking, he blends hands-on coding with infrastructure design and testing, and his open-source work shows a recurring focus on developer experience and reliable deployments.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of Kiel
English, German
Github Skills (48)
kubernetes10
javascript10
stun10
coffeescript10
jquery10
cloud-computing10
package-management10
apidoc10
python10
plugin-development10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
process-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
supervisord10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:138 reviews, 25 commits, 35 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily contributed to the Command Line Interface (CLI) functionality, specifically adding support for cluster management features within the PyTorch Lightning ecosystem. These changes involved creating and managing AWS-based compute clusters, including functionality for creating, listing, and deleting clusters. Furthermore, the user added support for running apps on specific clusters, and implemented SSH key management capabilities within the CLI, improving the overall user experience when working with cloud resources.
pythonheadachespytorch-modelsdata-sciencehandling
hashicorp/terraform
Mar 2016 - May 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:60 commits, 56 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Raphael's commits indicate involvement in back-end development related to API Gateway. The user implemented functionality to vendor AWS API Gateway API and added resources for creating and managing API Gateway resources and methods. They also contributed to defining the AWS API Gateway model and integration, implying a focus on cloud infrastructure and API management within the Terraform project.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
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