Rafael Cardoso dos Santos

Principal Software Engineer at Independent Consulting

Portland, Maine

Skills

Java, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, PL/SQL, SQL, Bash
Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, Apache Camel, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle BPEL, Apache Spark, XSLT, REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, ETL
Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud, Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Prometheus, observability, CI/CD, SSO, resilience patterns
Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agents, embedding pipelines, hybrid vector/keyword search, caching, circuit breakers.

About

Senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience building and supporting integrations, data pipelines, and backend services for finance, healthcare, and enterprise systems. At Synchro, I worked on Oracle and SAP fiscal integrations, including an invoicing flow that handled about 2 million transactions per week, and guided groups of 3-8 engineers. Current independent work includes distributed systems, wireless security telemetry, and search. Hands-on with Java, Rust, Go, Scala, SQL, Apache Camel, Kafka/Redpanda, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL.