Rafael Canovas is a Principal Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 13 years of experience building full-stack products, leading teams, and shipping AI-driven features across startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on engineering—Python, Django, React Native, PostGIS, CI/CD and DevOps—with proven leadership, having doubled engineering teams while dramatically reducing turnover and expanding Telavita’s reach to millions. As a co-founder he built end-to-end platforms for urban mobility and startup incubation, including a bike-routing system integrated with BRouter and a startup whose product was later acquired. More recently he led Creator team efforts in music AI such as chord extraction and stem separation, showing a knack for applying ML to domain problems. Curious since childhood, Rafael blends entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on clean code, delivery processes, and measurable product impact.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Computer Science, Bacharelado, Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
djpg is a Django module that integrates with the online payment service PagSeguro (API v2).
Contributions:3 releases, 73 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 9 months
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