Rafael Coutinho
Head Of Software Engineering And Product at iFood
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Coutinho is an impact-driven software and product leader with 10+ years building financial systems for Brazil’s largest food tech, currently heading Software Engineering and Product at iFood. He combines deep technical roots—from embedded Linux and Java EE to NLP and enterprise systems—with product ownership, having progressed from developer to Head of Product and now single-thread manager for critical finance processes. Rafael has a strong track record of delivering auditable, high-throughput financial platforms and leading cross-functional teams to align systems with business strategy. His background includes complex embedded systems, GIS-enabled enterprise software at IBM, and strategic public-sector tooling for the UNDP, showing an unusual breadth across domains and stacks. Based in São Paulo, he also runs a consulting practice, reflecting continuous hands-on engineering alongside senior leadership. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who translates regulatory and operational constraints into resilient, scalable product solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Anglo Pouso AlegrePostgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Certificate at University of LiverpoolSystem Engineer, System Engineer at UnicampBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Ecole centrale de Lyon
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (77)
jena9
apache-jena9
sparql9
rdf9
angular8
javascript8
bower8
beautify8
frontend8
react8
vue8
apache8
java8
npm-package7
charts7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelcoutinho/northapp
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 93 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 5 months
rafaelcoutinho/northappadmin
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 51 pushes in 11 months
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