Raphael Santana
Senior Backend Engineer at Tilt
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Santana is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of experience building fintech and payment infrastructure from Brazil, specializing in card processing, reconciliation automation, and merchant capital products. He has driven end-to-end features like "Pay with Capital" and card disputes, blending deep distributed-systems practice with a pragmatic focus on observability, compliance, and risk constraints. Comfortable across Go, Python and Scala, he has repeatedly decomposed monoliths into reliable, event-driven services and improved operational readiness through better monitoring and on-call practices. Past roles span embedded finance, accounts payable automation, e-commerce integrations and crypto operations, giving him rare end-to-end exposure to money-movement edge cases and accounting integrations. He pairs hands-on implementation with cross-functional collaboration—translating legal and product constraints into pragmatic technical RFCs and production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Cefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (16)
grids7
electrical-engineering6
lint5
static-analysis5
linter5
static-code-analysis4
package4
python4
scala3
database3
mysql3
sql3
sqlite2
postgresql2
query-builder2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
santanaraphael/santanaraphael.github.io
Mar 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
santanaraphael/grounding_website
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
A open-source software designed to design earthing grids on AC substations. Made by an engineer to engineers.
Contributions:52 commits, 8 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 10 months
open-source-softwareengineersgrids
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