Illustrated portrait of Rafael Montúfar

Founding engineer · Tech lead · Querétaro, MX

I build hiring software for Latin America.

Twelve years owning the architecture and database of a B2B recruiting platform, from the first commit to thousands of users. Writing production code every day.

Commit activity

Most of this work is in private repositories.

1,381 contributions, June to September 2026

Selected work

Products I designed and built at a recruiting platform used by thousands of companies in LATAM.

AI prescreening

A WhatsApp bot that screens candidates and books interviews

LLM-driven conversation that checks salary, location and experience against the job, then schedules with the recruiter. Weekly interview bookings went up 4x.

Search and matching

Candidate search and job matching over 500K+ profiles

New search engine plus resume extraction from PDFs, cutting recruiter search time by half. A matching pipeline ranks candidates for every open job.

Platform

From an MVP to a cloud platform with CI/CD

Owned the architecture and database from day one, with schema migrations done live as the user base grew from hundreds to thousands of companies.

What I work with

Years are years in production, not years since a tutorial.

Backend

  • Python · FastAPI9+ yrs
  • PHP · Laravel12+ yrs
  • Node.js8+ yrs

Data

  • PostgreSQL3+ yrs
  • MySQL · RDS12+ yrs
  • MongoDBmatching
  • Modeling · migrationsday one

Cloud and infra

  • AWS10+ yrs
  • Terraform3+ yrs
  • ECS · Lambda · SQS · CI/CD

Frontend

  • React · TypeScript1+ yr
  • Vue3+ yrs
  • AngularJS · Bootstrapearly days

AI

  • LLM products2+ yrs
  • AI workflows · agents2+ yrs
  • Claude Code · Codexdaily