José Rocha is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of hands-on experience specializing in native mobile development, particularly iOS, and currently building products at Lightspeed HQ in Montreal. He has a proven track record delivering consumer and enterprise apps—most notably co-developing the official Rio 2016 Olympics iOS app—and spans Android, Swift/Objective-C, and backend work when needed. José combines deep technical craft with cross-functional collaboration, often bridging design, QA, and release engineering (Fastlane, CircleCI, Crashlytics) to ship polished user experiences. Holding an MSc in Computer Science, he also explored programming education for children through a master’s project that produced a robot-programming game, revealing a long-standing interest in learning-driven product design. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic tech lead and early adopter who helps teams adopt modern iOS architecture and CI practices.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Android Development, Android Development at C.E.S.A.R.
iOS Development, iOS Development at IDS Tecnologia
IT, IT at Qualiti Assessoria e Consultoria S/A
Residence in Software Reuse (Especialization), Computer Software Engineering, Resident (Intern), Residence in Software Reuse (Especialization), Computer Software Engineering, Resident (Intern) at RiSE - Reuse in Software Engineering
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, BSc., Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, BSc. at Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
Fluent, English language, Fluent, English language at International Language Schools of Canada
Proficient, English Language, Proficient, English Language at Associação Brasil-América
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 4 days
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