Rafael

Overview

Rafael is one of two co-founders of the wiki/entities/b2bpaper marketplace, holding a 50% stake through his company wiki/entities/deploystaff. He is responsible for the entire technology side of the venture: AI/ML systems, platform development, infrastructure, and deployment.

Role in B2BPaper

• Ownership: 50% via wiki/entities/deploystaff
• Responsibilities: All technology, AI/ML, platform development
• Counterpart: wiki/entities/thierry (domain expertise, industry relationships)

Rafael's role complements Thierry's perfectly. Where Thierry brings 15+ years of paper trading knowledge and existing mill relationships, Rafael brings the technical capability to build the AI-powered matching, ingestion, and notification systems that make the marketplace work.

Technical Contributions

Rafael is responsible for:

• The wiki/concepts/four-layer-architecture system design
• Implementation of the wiki/concepts/service-layer-pattern for business logic
• The wiki/concepts/angular-frontend-stack and Django backend
• AI-powered Excel ingestion and spec-based matching algorithms
• Infrastructure management (Contabo VPS, PM2, Nginx)
• The wiki/entities/b2bpaper-scraper sibling project for data collection

Company

wiki/entities/deploystaff -- Rafael's company, the technology vehicle for the partnership.

Sources

• raw/notes/projectbrief -- partnership structure and role definitions

Related

• wiki/entities/b2bpaper -- the platform Rafael co-founded
• wiki/entities/deploystaff -- Rafael's company
• wiki/entities/thierry -- domain partner
• wiki/entities/morichal-trading -- Thierry's company