About

Rafael Maia Chieregatto is a highly skilled Front End Engineer with almost 4 years of experience working with big, user, and data-driven applications. He is passionate about building meaningful, responsive, accessible, and performance products. Rafael is a highly detail-oriented, supportive team player with a great sense of collaboration who loves taking on complicated challenges and creating efficient and aesthetically pleasing web applications. Rafael's strengths lie within HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, especially with Vue.js and React.js libraries. He has worked with some very knowledgeable senior developers at the beginning of his career and now seeks to help other beginner developers through what he has learned. Rafael is in a constant learning path, participating in coding events, and giving mentoring to other developers. Apart from his professional work, Rafael likes to develop some personal projects that can impact the community or learn new skills. He is really into computer games, especially MMORPGs, and Animes. Rafael has a passion for the Harry Potter franchise. Currently, Rafael works as a Front End Engineer at IBM, where he has participated in several projects that streamlined the work of different departments, bringing agility to their daily activities. He has also joined an initiative to implement tools like SonarQube and NewRelic, which helped to identify several metrics about the project. Before joining IBM, Rafael worked at Rocketseat, where he was part of the Experts Club Creators program, constantly producing hands-on video classes through which he shared technical content that he gathered throughout his career. Rafael presented technologies and solutions inside his expertise in Front-End with the objective of helping developers that participated in Experts Club on the challenge of the never-ending and on-demand learning process. Rafael holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) and a React Developer Nanodegree Program from Udacity. He also has a Technician degree in IT from ETEC Dep. Ary de Camargo Pedroso. Rafael has expertise in Frontend, Javascript, Web, New Relic, VueJS, CI/CD, NoSQL, MongoDB, ReactJS, Docker, DevOps, Redux, Integration, NodeJS, and Selenium. Overall, Rafael has 5.20 years of relevant experience in the field and is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.