Rafael Rojas.
CTO, OrigenLab and BENKER
Valdivia, Chile
they/them
Open to remote and hybrid roles
Backend engineer in Valdivia, Chile. APIs, data pipelines, and operator tools in Python and TypeScript, tested where money or messages move.
Brilliant and flawed, combining rare engineering talents with ridiculous public displays of ostentation, Musk is our era’s Thomas Edison, the man who, you may recall, electrocuted an elephant in order to discredit a rival.
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Selected work
11 projects, 4 featured
- 01
OrigenLab
Commercial software for a laboratory-equipment business: public site, email intelligence pipeline, operator API behind a Cloudflare Worker, CRM dashboard, and a Supabase V2 data platform under migration
Astro, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, React
2026
- 02
Heavy Ops
B2B platform matching heavy-equipment companies with eligible, compliant machine operators, with an explainable arrival-bonus workflow
Python 3.12, FastAPI, Pydantic v2, SQLAlchemy 2
2026
- 03
BENKER Commercial Platform
Pre-production platform for a heavy-civil-works estimating business: organisations, studies, quotations, approvals, outcomes, and marketing eligibility on one identity layer
TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL
2026
- 04
Campo Digital Platform
Geospatial and forestry monorepo: LiDAR timber-stack measurement, forestry GIS management, and shared PostGIS platform services
Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, PostGIS
2026
What I optimise for
- 01
Services & data models
HTTP APIs and schemas with explicit validation, so invalid state fails in one place, not across three integrations.
- 02
Automation with guardrails
Pipelines and outbound workflows with suppression, history checks, and human review where risk is high.
- 03
Integration-heavy backends
Stripe, Meta, Google: webhooks, retries, timeouts, and tests around the paths that move money or messages.
- 04
Operator-facing tools
Exports, dashboards, and runbooks so the team can answer “what happened?” without opening raw logs.
Currently
-
January 2026 - Present
OrigenLab OrigenLab
Chief Technology Officer
Own the software of a laboratory-equipment business end to end: the public site, the email intelligence pipeline, the operator API, the Cloudflare Worker proxy, and the CRM dashboard. One engineer, documented so another could take over from the seven canonical documents alone.
-
August 2026 - Present
BENKER
Chief Technology Officer
Replacing spreadsheets, a quotation PDF archive, and Drive folder workflows with a commercial database and process-tracking platform: Next.js and TypeScript over PostgreSQL with tested migrations.
-
August 2026 - Present
Campo Digital
Software Engineer, Geospatial Platform
Building a multi-product geospatial and forestry platform as a modular monolith: a shared FastAPI composition layer over PostgreSQL/PostGIS with product adapters isolated by bounded context.
-
August 2026 - Present
Heavy Ops
Software Engineer, Platform
Designing and building a B2B platform that matches construction and earthmoving companies with eligible, credentialed machine operators: FastAPI, Pydantic v2, SQLAlchemy 2, Alembic, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and a React/TypeScript PWA.
-
2026 - Present
NewDev Cooperativa
Member
Member of a Valdivia software development cooperative, working alongside other local engineers on shared practice and client work.