Rafael Ancheta

software consultant

I'm Rafael, a software consultant with 8+ years of experience. I've started companies and built multiple companies' products from idea to production enviorments. I enjoy running, climbing, studying and generally being outdoors.


Email me at: [email protected]

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/rafaelancheta

Github: www.github.com/rancheta

Blog




Projects


123 Dyno 2022 - Current


Creation and operation of 123 Dyno, the fastest metric based autoscaling of any cloud proider. An autoscaling solution for Heroku that provides a 12x speed upgrade and extensions to autoscale via CPU, memory, queue, and improved response times. Designed to intelligently handle load, cut users bills, and extend Heroku with more options than most cloud providers.


123 Dyno

Hurry, Inc 2022


Consulted on the creation of Hurry's minimum viable product and built out both the initial delivery portal via React.js and the bare-bones backend to support company endeavors within months. Further architected and built out scalable software via tools on AWS and worked on multiple internal projects.


Hurry

Software Consultant 2016 - Current


Consulting and contracting for various companies, typically building software from idea to minimum viable products and further.


Consulting & Development @ Brackot

Created @ Augmented Reality Conference Display

Created @ Fitness Billing and Planning Platform

Modded @ Carousel Port for AngularJS


Numina 2017 - 2018



Developed company's initial frontend dashboard that rendered tens of thousands of data points from municipal sensors, built a robust api layer in Flask, and generated data visualizations on AWS.


Numina.co



Carlypso 2015 - 2016


Maintained an AngularJS and NodeJS app, ported it over to Django, implemented a CMS system, built a car configurator in ReactJS, designed front end testing using Selenium, Karma, and Rollbar. Worked with designers to produce highly design focused layouts. Carlypso now acquired.




toEverywhere 2015


Built, managed, and formed relationships for an aggregator of ridesharing/carpooling providers across the public and private sector to boost the visibility of carpooling data across industries. toEverywhere's goal was to create a system that showed all the places you could go and all the cars passing by.




Rdvouz 2014 - 2015


Designed and developed the ridesharing website Rdvouz to create a modern and smart ridematching service that matched users with drivers passing along their routes. Experience with agile development and getting product to initial users quickly. Accepted into 2015 Carma Axlr8r Batch with seed funding and featured in The Atlantic's City Lab.




Wavespot CRM 2013-2014


Designed and developed the front end of a CRM system for WiFi based social networking. Also designed and developed their consumer facing site using the Wordpress CMS.


Consumer facing site