Rafael Michels Motta
Software Engineer at Footprint
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorRafael 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.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (98)
mobile-development10
instagram10
ui-components10
snapchat10
usestate10
scanner10
react-native-camera10
query-params10
app-framework10
camera10
querystring10
params10
cross-platform10
reactnative-ui10
android10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
onefootprint/examples
Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:13 reviews, 16 PRs, 86 pushes in 3 years 6 months
rafaelmotta/bematech-printer
Mar 2016 - May 2017
🖨 Native desktop socket.io application with integration with bematech termal printers. Tested only with MP4200TH
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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