Summary
Rafael Hieda is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of hands-on experience building mobile iOS applications for major Brazilian banks and financial services. He combines deep Swift/Objective-C expertise with backend experience in Java/Spring Boot and .NET, having delivered login frameworks, investment modules, OCR performance studies and cross-channel PoCs for production banking apps. Comfortable in regulated, high-availability environments, Rafael has moved from consultancy roles to an in-house senior engineer at Banco Itaú while maintaining a pragmatic focus on performance, analytics and deployment automation. His background spans full product lifecycle work—from prototyping and technical feasibility studies to troubleshooting in homolog and production—and he brings a habit of blending technical research with practical delivery. An early Apple Developer Academy alumnus with experience in Agile/CBL methods, he pairs strong mobile craftsmanship with a formal CS foundation and ongoing MBA studies in software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Farmacêutico, Ciências Farmacêuticas, Farmacêutico, Ciências Farmacêuticas at Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz
Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
Computer Science, Computer Science at University at Albany, SUNY
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Japanese