I’m Rafael Ferreira. I build software, and the teams that ship it.
The one I’m proudest of is New Relic Synthetics. I built it from the ground up, the team, the product, and the engineering office around it. It’s still running and still paying the bills for a lot of people, which is about the highest compliment I can pay a piece of software.
A few other things I’ve worked on, in reverse order:
- Atlassian. Managed squads in Developer Productivity and worked on Compass.
- GitHub. Led a team working on Insights and the broader analytics surface, helping millions of developers see what their work actually looked like.
- Scanii. A content security API I started about a decade ago and still run. Quietly serves customers in over 25 countries.
- IO. Worked on OpenCompute and OpenStack data center appliances and helped bring a few data centers online. Software people rarely get to touch physical infrastructure at that scale.
- BrowserMob. Partner in a load testing and synthetic monitoring product back when TechCrunch still wrote about that sort of thing.
I occasionally write about infrastructure, running a small SaaS, and whatever I’m currently breaking. There’s a small, mostly old, collection of open source bits on GitHub, and over the years I’ve contributed to a few larger projects including Mono, Apache HTTP Core, and Micronaut.
Outside of work I smoke meat, run slowly, and tinker with things around the house that probably didn’t need tinkering.
Reach me on LinkedIn or at [email protected].