Summary
Rafael Borja is an experienced Java/JEE engineer and engineering leader with over two decades in IT and nine years in senior roles across global firms, currently serving as Assistant Vice President at Morgan Stanley. He combines deep hands-on expertise in enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle/Postgres and middleware (WebLogic, WebSphere) with proven experience in multisite and cross-cultural projects spanning Canada, Brazil and Europe. Rafael has a track record of driving core systems and AI-related engineering efforts, mentoring teams, and bridging technical design with business needs from pre-sales to delivery. Multilingual in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish, he brings strong communication skills to distributed teams and complex integrations. His background includes certifications (SCWCD, SCJP), an academic master's in computer science, and a history of stabilizing legacy systems while modernizing architectures.
9 years of coding experience