About

Rafael Gil Beckel is an accomplished entrepreneur, polyglot software engineer, artist, and tinkerer with over 15 years of relevant experience. He has a deep interest in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and computer graphics running from distributed client-server systems. Rafael has led development teams and worked on projects for clients like Rakuten, Bayer, Rocket Internet, Google, Samsung, Philips, Bosch, LG, Motorola, Unilever, Telefonica, and Santander. Currently, Rafael is a Senior Software Engineer at Hellofresh, the most popular meal kit in the world, where he is part of the Menu team responsible for the core systems that decide what goes inside clients' boxes. Rafael's tech stack includes Go (Golang), PHP, Typescript, React, Swift, Kotlin, RabbitMQ, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Prior to Hellofresh, Rafael worked as a Senior Software Engineer at NewStore Inc., the only ready-to-use cloud-native omnichannel software that gives retailers and brands a competitive advantage against online retailers like Amazon. He was also a Senior Software Engineer at Rakuten, where he worked on the search page's backend and frontend to improve user experience. Rafael's tech stack at NewStore and Rakuten included Go (Golang), Python, Scala, Typescript, RabbitMQ, AWS, Kubernetes, PHP (Symfony), Golang (Echo), Javascript (React / Redux), Docker / Kubernetes, Azure, and Gitlab. Rafael holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Business Administration and Management from Universidade Federal da Bahia, an MBA in E-commerce & Digital Marketing from FECAP, and completed a Business program at Stanford University. Rafael's tech stack includes software engineering, AWS, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Typescript, computer vision, Terraform, PHP, Golang, parts-of-speech, search, mobile, test, Swift, Kotlin, Docker, Javascript, Redux, Azure, frontend, and backend.