Head of Engineering @ From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaFounder & CTO @ Took Raveable from an idea to a full blown product in merely 7 months. Managed to master new areas of expertise starting with semantic analysis & natural language processing algorithms to Ruby on Rails, scalable web site architecture and low cost deployment on Amazon AWS. Developed and managed social marketing programs targeted to bloggers and inn keepers. My role at the company included: product vision, architecture and development (RoR, C#, T-SQL, HTML/CSS/JS), SEO, SEM, UX design, social media marketing, competitive research & analysis, etc. Raveable.com went live toward the end of April 2009 and was quickly recognized as a clear innovation in the space by Travel & Pleasure, Inc. Magazine, and MSNBC. The blogger program attracted over 100 of the best travel bloggers in the space within five months of its inception. From September 2008 to Present (7 years 2 months) Greater Seattle Area

Rafik Robeal is skilled in: C#, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, SQL Server, AWS, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, SEO, ASP.NET MVC, Mono, Replication, NLP, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Software Development, Visual Studio, SQL, Architectures, T-SQL, Testing