Rafael Almeida Email & Phone Number

State Of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Continuation of my previous role. Strider was acquired by Syngenta mid-2018, and in June 2020 the Strider brand was merged into the new Syngenta Digital brand with the public announcement of the choice of the Brazilian market by Syngenta to launch new digital ag tools, a decision which was driven by Strider's existing market presence in Brazil (as told to Reuters by Syngenta CIO Greg Meyers).

Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil

Joined early-stage Strider a few months post seed round by Barn Investimentos and been with the company through Series A (by monashees+ and Qualcomm Ventures) in 2016 and acquisition by Syngenta in 2018. Architected and implemented many core parts of the company's products. As the Chief Architect, I was responsible for the architecture of all products.Tech domains worked with: Cloud architecture, DDD, GIS, remote sensing, data engineering, and mobile architecture.Other key roles… Show more Joined early-stage Strider a few months post seed round by Barn Investimentos and been with the company through Series A (by monashees+ and Qualcomm Ventures) in 2016 and acquisition by Syngenta in 2018. Architected and implemented many core parts of the company's products. As the Chief Architect, I was responsible for the architecture of all products.Tech domains worked with: Cloud architecture, DDD, GIS, remote sensing, data engineering, and mobile architecture.Other key roles and accomplishments: member of the global Office of the CTO, M&A committee advisor for Syngenta Ventures, interviewer to senior tech roles, tech lead, speaker at internal and external company events, founding member of the Architecture Guild of Syngenta's global DPE team. Show less

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Worked on AR experiences with Unity/Vuforia (as a pre-release partner of Qualcomm), R&D with Computer Vision, Voice Recognition, and ASR. Developed a DRM system based on public-key cryptography.

Computer Vision (inspection systems and visual odometry), systems architecture and implementation, industrial systems integration, and Measurement System Analysis.

Sourced curriculum data from unstructured sources (university pages) with custom-made crawlers, and led a small team of contractors working on the same task. Worked on a small system to mine data from user-uploaded content such as PDFs and Word files.

Full-stack web programming in Cifra Club, Palco MP3, and Guitar Battle, segment-leading sites in Brazil. Worked on regular large-scale web development as well as music-related domains and systems, such as guitar tab recognition and transposition.Tech stack: PHP, Python, Django, Tornado, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery.

Undergraduate level data mining and machine learning tasks, web development, design.

Back-end web development (ASP.net, C#, NHibernate, SOAP Web Services), front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery). One of the first engineers. Worked on some architectural tasks, such as learning content tree modeling.

Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil

Sole developer at a small agency, working on web development. Tech: PHP, ASP.net, Classic ASP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Inspired Workshop

Workshop - "INSPIRED: How To Create Products Customers Love", led by Lea Hickman (SVPG Partner, former VP Product @ InVision, Adobe)

Vo-Tech High School, Information Technology