Raphaël Riel
Staff Software Engineer at Numa
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphaël Riel is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling data-driven systems and engineering teams from startup to growth stages. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with strategic leadership—having led data, analytics and engineering organizations to design repeatable, testable pipelines on AWS, Snowflake, dbt and Looker. Known for pushing quality-first practices while pragmatically cutting corners when needed, he frequently introduces automation and observability to reduce toil and improve reliability. Raphaël has served as a trusted technical advisor to executives and coached teams through major migrations, vendor engagements and hiring waves. Based in Quebec, he blends product-minded engineering with business operations training, often favoring win-win solutions when requirements conflict. A pragmatic systems introspector, he focuses on making systems replayable, auditable and easy to operate in production.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Certificate, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Université LavalDEC, Multimédia, DEC, Multimédia at Cégep Sainte-Foy
French, English
Stackoverflow
199reputation
10kreached
9answers
4questions
Github Skills (149)
dataflow10
python10
metadata10
terraform10
ubuntu10
automation10
infrastructure10
orchestration10
libfdk-aac10
prefect10
data-engineering10
docker-build10
centos10
pipeline10
vaapi10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PokaInc/django-cache-friendly-timestamp-signer
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 6 PRs in 4 days
signed-urlsurlsdjangosignedcache-friendly
PokaInc/prefect
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
The easiest way to automate your data
Contributions:23 pushes, 6 branches in 13 days
pythondata
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