About Me
Hey, I’m Rafa! I’m Software Developer, specialising in Mobile Development and Backend lover.
My favourite areas to work are Native Android Development and Flutter.
When it’s up to me, I do backend with Spring Boot (Kotlin/Java) and MySQL.
Nothing like Docker to run ^EVERYTHING^
I always like to keep a clean architecture, stay up to date on the newest design patterns and enjoy what I do, every second I do it.
Divide and Conquer is probably my best method when I face any problem in my career.
personal information
- Full Name
- Rafael Ruiz Muñoz
- D.o.b.
- March 1990
- contact _at_ rafaruiz.me
- lives in
- Manchester (UK) - M4
- contractor
- since Jun, 2017
languages
Skills
Other skills
You'd like to know
- Can’t count the number of releases on Play Store 🙈…
- … seriously, too many.
- JIRA is my best organiser.
- I love Agile Development ❤
- And having a lot of Dockers!
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work experience
(Contractor) Senior Flutter Developer
Hedgehog LabWorking on several apps, mainly on financial services and the first MVP for a major financial company.
(Contractor) Senior Android Developer
Monument BankMember of the team to launch its first-ever banking app.
(Contractor) Senior Android Developer
Degree53Working for a company develops mainly Betting mobile apps like Betfred or the Ontario Lottery Gaming (OLG)
(Contractor) Senior Android Developer
ApadmiWorking for one main client developing a few mobile apps for a UK Premier League team.
Responsible for creating and maintaining a great custom Android architecture which integrates the best of RIBs, Navigation Components and MVVM.
(Contractor) Senior Android and Flutter Developer
IBM (w/ Tent & Bear)Working with Tent & Bear, in several projects where one of the biggest one was for IBM, together with the Department of Health of Abu Dhabi.
The mobile app tracks many health factors in your routine and lifestyle.
(Contractor) Senior Flutter Developer
Dr. Oetker (Juit Now)“Juit Now!” is an app to order food that is in freezers in your place of work. This project lead by the big Dr Oetker is trending in Germany right now.
(Contractor) Senior Android Developer
Boohoo.comIn Boohoo, I took the beginning of the Android project and did the first in-house release being myself on the Android team.
This app has hit and hits nowadays more than 300,000 unique monthly users only in Android and has more than 1 million downloads.
(Contractor) Lead Android Developer
N Brown Group PLC (Manchester)In N Brown, I was the person that started the architecture and the Android project from scratch that will result in the different brands’ product such as JD Williams, Jacamo, SimplyBe, and many others. I had to deal with many third party libraries for content purposes and a backend in Java with Spring Boot.
(Contractor) Lead Android Developer
North Midlands Construction (Sutton-in-Ashfield)In NMC, I helped the team to develop a tool to reduce the tons of paper that several forms filled by clients can make every week.
Senior Android Developer
BrightHR (Manchester)BrightHR helps people to build a better, more profitable business regarding Human Resources. It’s been named the SME Awards’ HR Provider of the Year 2016, and provides a full solution for business in order to manage holidays, sicknesses, latenesses, reports, management and employee’s behaviour.
Software & Computer Vision Developer (R&D)
Openshadow (MediaCityUK)Openshadow is a pixel-perfect company based in MediaCityUK working in many research and mobile projects for huge clients such as Louis Vuitton, L’Oréal and many others. others.
Junior Mobile and Backend Developer
Creact (Naples)Creact is a Mobile&Web agency where I was developing Android apps and doing the backend in NodeJS and Javascript. So far I have developed more than 10 projects with high customer satisfaction.
Education
Master in Multimedia Technologies (Computer Vision, Audio Processing)
University of GranadaReferences
Rafael joined at a really important time. He built an Android platform, from scratch, & played an integral part in N Brown’s 1st ever in-house built Android app: JD Williams UK. The growth & performance of that product has been phenomenal, already accounting for 6% of total weekly brand mobile sales.
Rafael is an accomplished developer, with great technical aptitude, supported by strong UX skills.
Rafa is a hard worker with a lot of IT skills (and not only that). As an Android app expert, I consider Rafa a good problem-solver and someone with a lot of initiative. He has the experience in order to fix any problem that can emerge along a project. He speaks 3 languages perfectly so can communicate with international groups. As a person, Rafa is a very friendly guy with a good sense of humor. I would always choose Rafa for my project teams.
I know Rafa as a hard working and very serious team player. Rafais a great networker with brilliant technical skills, and certainlycan get my full recommendation.
I worked with Rafael at BrightHR in my role as website manager. I had to frequently liaise with the Mobile team and often Rafael to receive the latest information, features and releases to promote them and co-ordinate with the wider marketing team.
He communicated clearly and has the ability to truly understand the audience he is talking to, which other developers often lack. I am not an expert in mobile development but I am aware he was highly regarded at BrightHR in his specialist Android role.
I was often apart of stand ups and demos where Rafael presented in front of a variety of stakeholders and he was always professional and confident.
I would highly recommend Rafael for a variety of mobile development roles and I would very much like to work with him in the future.
Rafael joined my mobile team to assist with the Android versionof the app. He contributed to all aspects of the app. Being a keen mathematician, he made the computer vision feature look easy to implement. I had fun working with Rafael!
Working with Rafa was a great fun. Very talented developer with awide range of skills.
I had the pleasure of working with Rafael in BrightHR, he is anexcellent Software Engineer and an incredibly problem-solver,also is a very hard worker. He has huge-range of software &mathematician knowledge to implement features very quickly andmade the job become easy.
During my time at Boohoo I worked closely with Rafa on the Boohoo shopping application and am happy to say that I not only learnt a lot but found Rafa to be a very effective member of the team.
Where I write
Sometimes I take time to write in Medium some stuff that I find interesting for other people.
An example of these texts are:
Also, I like to take spare time to contribute to the StackOverflow community:
