Rafa Carvalho Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I help Data Science and Machine Learning Engineering teams scale their work to production grade secure cloud architectures.I work with strategic enterprise clients, helping them leverage the power of Google Cloud AI/ML solutions to drive tangible business results. I partner with their teams to design and implement robust, secure cloud architectures that enable them to scale their data science and machine learning initiatives seamlessly.By leveraging my expertise in Google Cloud AI/ML offerings, I help organizations unlock the potential of their data, optimize their workflows, and achieve impactful outcomes that align with their strategic goals. I take pride in being a trusted advisor, guiding teams through the complexities of the AI/ML landscape and ensuring successful adoption of cutting-edge technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI for driving business growth and innovation.

San Francisco, California, Us

As a solutions engineer, I work as the technical pre-sales leader for sales representatives on engagements with prospective and existing customers to present product offerings for Mid-Market companies on the Northeastern region of the USA.When prospecting customers, I provide thorough technical product demonstrations focusing on how our powerful cloud-managed networking products can help them to simplify their day-to-day IT operations. Discovering business and technical needs is key on the process of creating a solution that will address customer's requirements.Commonly, I am challenged to design hybrid environments, where interoperability with existing infrastructure is paramount. I love these challenges, where I get to be the trusted advisor guiding my customers based on industry best-practices and product knowledge.Maintaining the relationship with existing customers is also part of my routine. I am frequently involved on support cases, where I get to work with Meraki's post-sales engineers and customers to move faster towards to a viable solution. Additionally, I frequently perform what we call "network health checks" to identify how customer's infrastructures can be optimized.

San Francisco, California, Us

As a Systems Engineer, I work with a Cisco Meraki Sales team to assist with technical sales activities for new and existing SMB opportunities.Responsibilities- Act as a technical resource to the Meraki Sales team for all technical pre sales activities and product related inquiries;- Conduct online product demonstrations, answer technical questions, contribute to proposals, analyze clients’ needs, and develop technical solutions in a pre-sales environment

San Jose, Ca, Us

VSEs are technical sales professionals who provide the account team with technical sales support and act as owners of the technical opportunity. VSEs engage customers in person and also via collaborative tools and technology such as WebEx and Telepresence. I am an Enterprise Networking specialist, focused on routing, switching and mobility. Daily activities:- Lead sales calls, understanding customers' requirements and presenting Cisco's solutions;- Give product demonstrations;- Lead trainings to enable Cisco's partners ecosystem;- Create network designs and Bill of Materials (BOM);- Interact with Business Units in order to provide product information to customers and partners.Initiative:I was a member of the Global Virtual Engineering Council (GVEC). Each semester a team of 15 members are brought together to work on initiatives that improve the way the global community of engineers work around the globe (500+ engineers, managers, specialists). The work of the GVEC is discussed and validated during frequent meetings with the organisation's (GVE) top management.On my term, I led the Rewards and Recognition initiative. We released a survey to the community (100+ responses) and worked on suggestions of criteria (productivity, team work, quality of service...) considered by the engineers to be important for rewards and recognition strategies. The final result was passed to leadership to be formally implemented.

San Jose, Ca, Us

The Cisco Sales Associates Program (CSAP) is one of the most highly-coveted early-in-career development programs (trainee program). CSAP is designed for top university graduates from around the world who aspire to become the next generation of sales leaders at Cisco. Associate Systems Engineers are pre-sales consulting engineers who use their technical expertise to translate customer requirements into integrated solutions. During the year long immersion period in the US, we were exposed not only to technical enablement, but also for personal skills development (sales and business acumen, public presentations, demonstrations, time management).

Dublin 2, Ie

Development of Web Solutions using Java.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Br

Analysis and development of several mobile applications using the Android platform.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Development of a plug-in to enhance IBM’s support in the area of Storage Resource Management (SRM) to VMWare's virtualization tool VMware vSphere. The internship was lead in a German working environment with co-workers located in different parts of the world. The German language was used for internal communication and English was used for external communication.

Co-founder, mobile and web developer of the startup SocialCATS, a website and mobile application that offered social information about events. From a developer point of view, SocialCATS was a mashup of Facebook and Foursquare APIs to get events and their geolocations.Main contributions: Mobile developer - Android development; Frontend developer - Responsible for the HTML + CSS + jQuery part of the website. Technologies: Python, Java, Android, Google App Engine.

Recife, Pernambuco, Br

C++ development for a sales embedded system. Website test automation was also part of my activities.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Exchange Student Program, Informatics