Summary
Rafael Heringer is a VP of Engineering based in Rio de Janeiro with 13 years of experience scaling product-focused engineering organizations and coaching technical leaders. At Nibo he evolved from front-end developer to head of engineering, building squads, instituting DevOps practices, and owning cloud budgets while driving hiring and retention processes. He combines hands-on technical chops (early work modernizing front-end stacks and Azure infrastructure) with strong people development skills, creating individual development plans and leadership training programs. Rafael has repeatedly improved customer-facing operations—once raising support satisfaction to 97%—showing a talent for cross-functional collaboration between product, finance and support. He’s passionate about the maker/IoT culture and spends free time prototyping Arduino projects, a sign of hands-on curiosity that informs pragmatic engineering leadership. Colleagues describe him as a practical, growth-oriented leader who turns scaling challenges into structured, repeatable processes.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English