Summary
Paulo Nonaka is a seasoned mobile engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling mobile and backend systems across startups and multinationals like iFood, Latam Airlines, ThoughtWorks and Fiat. Currently Head of Mobile at Forget Me Not, he designs microlearning experiences and data-driven UX while previously leading mobile teams using Flutter, Kotlin and cloud-native backends in diverse markets including Brazil, Chile, Nigeria and the US. A hands-on tech lead who moves between mobile (Flutter, native iOS/Android) and backend (Node/Kotlin/Java), he blends architecture, CI/CD and observability to speed delivery and reliability. He’s led teams of up to 28 engineers, driven platform consolidation that cut release time dramatically, and founded a mobile consultancy that served major clients like Ipiranga. Born in Brazil to Japanese parents, Paulo brings a global, agile-first mindset rooted in early DIY computing and entrepreneurship. He’s equally comfortable shipping production code or coaching product teams to translate real-world problems into elegant mobile solutions.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation, Computer Science, Bachelor, Graduation, Computer Science, Bachelor at Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte
Master's Degree (unfinished), Computer Science, Master's Degree (unfinished), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Spanish, Portuguese