Summary
Rafael Akiyoshi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems, specializing in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js and AWS. He has a track record of delivering scalable, event-driven architectures that automate operations and unlocked significant capital efficiencies for businesses. Rafael has moved through roles at startups and scale-ups—contributing to product and infrastructure at Fluent.ai, SSENSE, and now Lightspeed—balancing hands-on coding with system design and team collaboration. Early experience building data-mining pipelines and NoSQL-backed APIs for legal-tech gives him a strong foundation in data-driven engineering and pragmatic integration. Based in Montreal, he combines an engineer’s attention to reliability with a knack for identifying automation opportunities that drive measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Engenharia de Software, Bacharelado Engenharia de Software at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese, French