Rafail Varonos

Empowering engineers

Engineering Leadership

transforming ideas into impact across industries

Banking

Utilities

Health

Education

Sustainability

Marketing

People Management & Leadership

Engineering Career DevelopmentActively advancing one's career in engineering through continuous learning, skill enhancement, and professional networking to align with industry demands and personal aspirations.
Engineering Team FacilitationGuiding and supporting engineering teams in effective communication, problem-solving, and decision-making, fostering collaboration, trust, and alignment toward common goals.
Technical Mentorship Guiding engineers in architecture, code quality, and cloud best practices.
Hiring and sub-contractingExperienced in sourcing, evaluating, and onboarding cloud-native engineers and contractors with expertise in modern cloud platforms, ensuring scalable team structures and alignment with technical goal

Technical Expertise

Monitoring & ObservabilityDynatrace, Kibana, Sentry
CI/CD PipelineJenkins, GitHub Actions
System Design & Architecture Micro-services, APIs, and event-driven systems
Security & ComplianceData encryption, Secure access, GDPR
Programming ProficiencyNode.js, Typescript, Java
Infrastructure as CodeAWS CloudFormation and CDK
Database TechnologiesPostgreSQL, DynamoDB
Cloud PlatformsAWS - EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, Kubernetes
Scalability & Reliability EngineeringDesigning fault-tolerant, distributed systems

Communication & Collaboration

Cross-Functional CoordinationCollaborating closely with management, architects, designers, and testers to ensure alignment and cohesion across engineering efforts.

Backed by Experience

because when the work delivers, people talk

Rafail is without doubt capable of managing large scale, enterprise-level projects as he carries an in-depth knowledge on modern web technologies and great understanding for business needs.
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Antonis Mandilaris

IT Manager

Rafail is modest, hard-working, analytical, organized, positive and always looking for the most efficient and cost-effective solution.
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Ellen Vandenbroucke

Coordinator School 2030

He was extremely fast and flexible with his deliverables, while in keeping with all appropriate quality and security standards.
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Lila Zanni

SAP Business Unit Director

The quality of his work and professionalism was what kept us on assigning Rafail to our future projects.
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Karel Verbert

Creative and Managing Director, Imengine

He is a dedicated and hardworking person who showed great willingness and effectiveness for the task he was committed to carry out.
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Christos Balaskas

General Manager

From the initial phase of a project to the final delivery, Rafail proved that he can combine smooth cooperation without sacrificing performance.
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Dimitrios Karras

CEO, Phd Cand. on Psychology and Social Media

Rafail managed to continue delivering even under challenging circumstances. He works in a highly structured way and is a particularly thoughtful communicator as a colleague.
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Ewoud Monbaliu

Manager - founding partner

Engineering Success

from design to delivery, every project tells a story

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Vorm 3010

For experts to set priorities and objectives for urban development, addressing themes like sustainable mobility and climate resilience.

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Voeding Verbindt

Enhancing community engagement and awareness around sustainable agriculture and local food production.

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School 2030

Helping schools in Leuven develop and implement sustainable policies to become climate-neutral.

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Home info

Serves as a matchmaker connecting elderly individuals with the most suitable residential care centers, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.

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Farma status

Successfully delivered the project on schedule, enabling pharmacists and suppliers to facilitate the availability of medicines for their customers

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Demonstr8

Modernized onboarding application aimed at attracting new talent. Created a portal to streamline the management of applications and designed a comprehensive dashboard that provided insightful campaign metrics.

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Transition Monitor

An innovative tool designed to support the city's shift towards a circular economy and sustainability.

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Leuven.cool

Mapping the impact of green elements in the city and private gardens on the local microclimate

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EDA Attikis

A deregulation project to modernize gas distribution services. Built the web applications that enabled efficient gas meter switching, access to consumption data, and real-time connection availability.