# Raphael Academia > Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/raphaelacademia Software Engineer on Cisco Meraki's MX Dashboard team! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States • Full stack development (React + Ruby on Rails) on the MX Dashboard ### Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • MX Dashboard ### Software Engineering Intern (Payments) @ Zynga Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Led development on a feature that allowed information pertaining to refunded transactions to be sent to Zynga’s Analytics team using Java for the server-side code and Amazon Redshift as a data store • Devised scheduled jobs that updated the statuses of transactions in the Payments MySQL database by getting refunded transactions from Steam and Paypal using the Steamworks API and the Braintree API • Engineered ability to refund Paypal transactions from the Payments admin dashboard using the Braintree API • Investigated anomalies occurring in various services using Splunk and created new Datadog monitors using Terraform ### Full Stack Developer @ DarwinAI Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada • Architected and implemented the backend of DarwinAI’s defect detection application, which involved designing the database schema and the API endpoints and implementing the backend using NodeJS, ExpressJS, and PostgreSQL • Spearheaded the engineering on DarwinAI’s defect detection user interface by developing several screens using Angular • Containerized the applications using Docker and setup Bitbucket build pipelines to build production images ### Software Developer @ Ink Thread & Tech Corp. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Oakville, Ontario, Canada • Developed numerous features, microservices, and workflows for Entripy’s platforms using C#, SQL, Azure Functions, and the Azure Service Bus to improve user experience and to support business needs • Implemented various screens using Angular and Bootstrap, creating shared components for seamless maintainability • Debugged and resolved production incidents by investigating logs from Azure Application Insights and creating fixes ### Software Developer @ Ink Thread & Tech Corp. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Oakville, Ontario, Canada • Kickstarted Entripy’s rebate management system using C#, SQL, Azure Functions, the Azure Service Bus, and the NetSuite SuiteTalk API to automate rebate payments to clients • Saved the company $9600/year by migrating data from CosmosDB to SQL Server, which involved architecting and implementing several RESTful APIs and designing new SQL database tables • Designed and planned several features in an agile environment, which involved devising the architecture required to implement the feature and constant collaboration with the product team ### Software Team Member @ Waterloop Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 • Participated in a student design team that annually competes at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Challenge • Collaborated with team members to set up communication between a Desktop client and two Raspberry Pi’s through TCP/IP implemented in C++ to send data obtained from various sensors to the Desktop client • Converted data obtained from CAN packets to JSON using RapidJSON to make client-side data processing and parsing effortles ### QA Automation Developer @ Teranet Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada • Built automation test scripts in C# to test Teranet’s Recovery web application, leveraging the Page Object Model design pattern, Selenium for browser automation, and NUnit to execute tests cases • Automated over 110 test cases with 5-20 assertions and integrated object-oriented programming to create modular code and reusable test scenarios • Significantly improved Teranet’s Recovery automation framework, creating numerous classes and methods such as a class that handles database verification through SQL queries, an HTML table parser, and an Excel spreadsheet reader ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ### St Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raphael-academia - GitHub: https://github.com/RaphaelAcademia --- Source: https://flows.cv/raphaelacademia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raphaelacademia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29