Pierre Villa
Senior Director - Head Of Product And Design at Rakuten
Setagaya, Japan
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Top SchoolPierre Villa is a senior product and design leader with 13 years of hands-on mobile engineering experience, now heading Product and Design for Rakuten Mobile Link in Setagaya, Japan. He has designed and shipped native iOS and Android apps since 2010 for over 20 high-end clients across luxury lifestyle, banking, and food industries, blending deep technical fluency (Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C, Springboot) with product vision. At Rakuten he progressed from iOS engineer to Director of Engineering and Director of Innovation, leading the Mobile Link super app and MiniApp SDK efforts. A co-founder of Yepngo and long-time freelance consultant, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and client-facing agility to large-scale corporate environments. Colleagues describe him as creatively adaptive and team-oriented, able to bridge UX, product strategy, and platform-level technical decisions. He combines production-grade engineering rigor with a designer’s sensitivity—often driving innovation from prototype to scalable release.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Alphonse Daudet, TarasconBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at IUT d'Aix Marseille
English, Spanish, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (127)
uipageviewcontroller10
webview10
in-app-purchase10
sdk10
swift10
xcode10
android10
macos10
objective-c10
wkwebview10
ios10
cocoapods10
synology9
internet-connection9
steam9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Ant-Robot/My-Figure-Collection-app-for-Android
Nov 2012 - Sep 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
Climbatize/ios-miniapp
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Mini App SDK for iOS Apps
Contributions:137 pushes, 33 branches, 6 tags in 5 months
app-sdksdkmini-appsdk-for-iosios
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