Head of Engineering @ Oak Network
Rafa Gomes is Head of Engineering at Oak Network, leading global engineering and building agentic AI systems — multi-agent orchestration and LLM-powered tooling — on 18+ years of full-stack and blockchain experience.
01 / About
I am Head of Engineering at Oak Network, where I own the global engineering roadmap and operate at the intersection of business leadership and hands-on execution. I lead across full-stack, blockchain, and agentic-AI initiatives, holding accountability for team performance, architecture, and delivery across regions.
My current focus is AI engineering: I drive the design and implementation of intelligent agent systems — architecting autonomous workflows, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM-powered tooling that augment both our product and our internal engineering velocity. I also build in the open: my ai-workflow toolkit brings structured skills, agents, and full-SDLC conventions to AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
Across 18+ years I have shipped production software as an engineer and leader — protocols and SDKs at Gateway, AI algorithms at an early-stage health-tech company, and full-stack platforms for clients including American Express and Petrobras. A security background (CEH, ethical hacking, threat modeling) shapes how I design systems for resilience. I work primarily in Go, Rust, TypeScript, and Node.js.
02 / Capabilities
03 / Experience
Own the global engineering roadmap. Drive agentic-AI development — intelligent agent systems, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM-powered tooling — alongside full-stack and blockchain execution and AWS infrastructure. Previously Head of Engineering, LATAM (2025–2026).
Hands-on lead building a protocol, SDK, and the company’s principal products in Node.js (Nest.js), Go, and Next.js.
Built product experiences at an AI health-tech company developing proprietary algorithms to comprehend medical records and accelerate legal discovery.
Led delivery of tested React and Angular applications for major enterprise clients, improving product experience and engineering quality.
Full-stack hands-on leadership with Node, React, and Angular — including an internet-banking experience and work for American Express and top Brazilian companies.
Partner and software development manager, then senior full-stack roles delivering platforms for clients including Petrobras — spanning PHP, JavaScript, and rich interactive web.
04 / Selected work
An AI-assisted development workflow toolkit for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex — skills, agents, and conventions spanning the full software development lifecycle, so AI coding tools follow a repeatable engineering process.
View on GitHub ↗Go package for keypair generation, encryption, and decryption using ECIES over the BLS12-381 elliptic curve.
View on GitHub ↗A user-centric firewall for Linux systems, written in Rust.
View on GitHub ↗05 / Writing
I publish security research as 0xrafasec — CVE deep-dives, malware analysis, and blockchain security.
06 / Credentials
07 / Contact
Open to conversations about AI engineering, technical leadership, and hard systems problems.