Rafael – Node.js, React, AWS
Rafael is a senior full-stack engineer with seven years of experience, specializing in Node.js, React, and TypeScript, with a recent focus on AI-driven product work. He has led architectural decisions for modular monoliths and LLM-powered chatbots, demonstrating strong system design and pragmatic problem-solving. Rafael’s communication is clear and client-ready, with proven stakeholder management and team leadership experience. The only notable gap is deep AWS infrastructure expertise, though foundational usage is solid.
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Senior Software Engineer
It's a Learning Management System that delivers online courses, postgraduate programs, medical residency exam preparation courses, and degree revalidation programs, providing structured learning paths, video-based content, assessments, and academic resources.
- Built and maintained core platform features and integrations, including video playlists, Salesforce connectors, an internal educational platform, a helpdesk system, and checkout backend services.
- Delivered AI-powered features, including cost-optimization initiatives and developer productivity tools using Generative AI.
- Developed AI agents for the internal learning platform to guide students, surface contextual content, and enhance the overall learning experience.
- Designed and implemented AI workflows and intelligent agents to support multiple roles in the software engineering lifecycle, improving delivery speed and quality.
- Built AI systems with Python, RAG, OpenSearch, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AWS Bedrock, and OpenAI APIs.
Senior Software Engineer
It's an AI-powered automation solution that enables companies to automate document-heavy workflows using LLM-powered pipelines and rule-based validation frameworks.
- Designed and implemented a document rule-validation framework for dynamic validation of AI-extracted document data.
- Developed an internal metrics and cost tracking platform to monitor document processing expenses by customer, category, and time.
- Contributed to AI extraction pipelines, building workflows for multiple document types and validation logic.
- Built a full-stack B2B SaaS product using AI agents to parse quotation requests, query databases, and generate structured responses.
- Implemented AI agents and pipelines with Python, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, query expansion, and reranking for better accuracy.
Full-stack Developer
It's a people management and recruitment platform used by companies to track key HR metrics, including employee satisfaction, hiring processes, performance indicators, and cultural fit.
- Developed an HR management platform for job postings, candidate pipelines, and hiring workflows.
- Managed AWS infrastructure including S3, EC2, RDS, Route53, ELB, CloudFront, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline.
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for continuous delivery.
- As sole developer, led end-to-end delivery of two full platforms covering architecture, full-stack implementation, and cloud ops.