Rafa Pereira is a multidisciplinary tech entrepreneur and product leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling mission-driven software teams from Lisbon. As co-founder and former CTO of Onebrief, he shaped a niche planning tool used for complex operations—from defense to humanitarian and space planning—and now serves as its Head of Product. His background spans enterprise architecture and engineering leadership at data.world and IAC, where he shipped integrations and platforms and forged partnerships with Microsoft, Google, and Tableau. Rafa combines strategic product vision with deep engineering chops, having accelerated delivery cycles and created frameworks that cut implementation time dramatically in large enterprises. He also mentors early-stage founders at Capital Factory, blending hands-on technical problem solving with entrepreneurial coaching. An early career technologist-turned-leader, he brings a practical focus on making complex systems understandable and actionable.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Entrepreneurship Finance, MBA Entrepreneurship Finance at Baruch College
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU
MS (Partial) Computer Science, MS (Partial) Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Contributions:12 releases, 22 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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