Rafael Michels Motta
Head Of Frontend Engineering at Footprint
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Michels Motta is a Head of Frontend Engineering with 13 years of experience building and leading frontend and mobile teams across fast-growing startups and scale-ups. He’s led engineering orgs from seed to Series A, scaled teams from single digits to 20+, and shipped production apps and design systems that doubled conversion and drastically reduced crashes. At Footprint he moved from founding engineer to head of frontend, focusing on identity and security products while continuing to lead mobile efforts. Rafael combines deep hands-on expertise in React/React Native, TypeScript and frontend observability with strong people leadership—coaching, hiring and driving engineering processes. He’s pragmatic about architecture and tooling, having introduced microfrontends, CI/CD and design systems to improve velocity and consistency. Based in Florianópolis, he brings a startup mindset to complex product and infrastructure problems, pairing measurable impact with product-focused UX sensibility.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Sistemas de Informação Programação Banco de Dados Algoritmos Empreendedorismo, Sistemas de Informação Programação Banco de Dados Algoritmos Empreendedorismo at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UFSC
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (146)
touchid10
reader10
instagram10
snapchat10
usestate10
scanner10
react-native-camera10
barcodes10
pinch10
camera10
screeps10
gestures10
datamatrix10
cross-platform10
textinput10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelmotta/api-admin
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:226 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
onefootprint/examples
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:12 reviews, 16 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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