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About

Hi, I’m Rafhael Gomes, a Software Engineer.

Tech Lead | Software Engineer | Data Engineering, Applied AI Engineering & Infrastructure

I design, build, and lead the development of scalable software systems, data platforms, and AI-powered applications, combining software engineering, data engineering, applied artificial intelligence, and infrastructure.

My focus is on building reliable, production-ready solutions, from system architecture and data ingestion to AI integration, model evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

I am passionate about solving complex engineering challenges, designing scalable architectures, and bridging the gap between software, data, and artificial intelligence.

Areas of Interest

  • Technical Leadership: System architecture, technical decision-making, engineering best practices, code quality, mentoring, and scalable system design.
  • Software Engineering: Backend architecture, APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, performance optimization, reliability, and system design.
  • Data Engineering: ETL/ELT, data modeling, batch and stream processing, data quality, data orchestration, and distributed data platforms.
  • Applied AI Engineering: Production AI applications, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, AI agents, and tool calling.
  • Machine Learning: Supervised and unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, experimentation, and statistical foundations.
  • MLOps & Model Lifecycle: Experiment tracking, model registry, model versioning, reproducibility, model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring.
  • AI Systems & Infrastructure: Model serving, inference optimization, evaluation pipelines, observability, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud architecture, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and security.

Building scalable software, reliable data platforms, and production-ready AI systems.

GitHub: github.com/rafhaelgomes-dev