- type
- entity
- created
- Tue Apr 07 2026 02:00:00 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)
- updated
- Tue Apr 07 2026 02:00:00 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)
- sources
- raw/notes/projectbrief
- tags
- person founder technology deploystaff
Rafael
abstract
Rafael is the technology co-founder of B2BPaper, founder of DeployStaff, responsible for all AI/ML, platform development, and technical infrastructure.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