🐥 About Me
Hello! I'm Rafael, a fifth-year Computer Science student at The University of British Columbia. Currently, I'm working at Cognitive3D as a Software Engineer Co-op, working with their analytics platform that measures human behavior in VR/AR simulations.
💼 Work Experience
• Developing VR applications for Meta Quest, HTC Vive, and Pico headsets in Unity and C# to showcase the analytic features of Cognitive3D's SDK.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Codacy to streamline development and deployment processes.
• Created custom Power BI dashboards to track and analyze internal team performance metrics, providing insights that resulted in a 20% increase in operational efficiency.
• Contributed to the planning and execution of 10+ consulting projects, delivering digital integration solutions, including market research, vendor assessment, and cost analysis, to enhance client services.
🌱 Extracurricular Activities
• Collaborating as part of a 6-person cross-functional team to develop a VR studio in Unreal Engine, enabling artists to perform and record with virtual instruments in realistic and hard-to-replicate acoustic environments such as caves and forests.
• Leading the back-end development as part of an 8-person cross-functional team, planning, designing, and building a clinical logging platform for FlowLeaflets, a non-profit organization providing speciality-specific clinical logbooks to healthcare professionals.
🚀 Projects
• Developing a web application to scan, digitize, and store information from handwritten clinical records from FlowLeaflet's clinical logbooks.
• Building a RESTful API with Express.js to store and retrieve data from Supabase, ensuring secure and efficient access to user information and clinical records.