Rafael Negherbon
Co-CEO & Founder at GooInvest
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Negherbon is a fintech entrepreneur and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building payment systems that process billions of monthly transactions across Boleto, Pix and card rails. As co-founder and CTO of Transfeera he led the technical strategy to secure a payments institution license and a direct Pix connection with Brazil’s central bank, culminating in an M&A with global payments firm PayRetailers. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing front-end fixes to notable open-source projects like Algolia's autocomplete—with strategic SRE and product-aligned technology leadership in roles up to Co-CEO. Educated in fintech and cybersecurity at Harvard, Rotman and FIAP, he blends regulatory, security and product foresight to scale mission-critical payments infrastructure. Based in Santa Catarina, he now leads GooInvest, bringing a unique mix of Brazilian payments-domain expertise and global expansion experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueFuture of Payments Fintech, Future of Payments Fintech at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementFintech, Fintech at Harvard Business SchoolTechnical degree software development, Technical degree software development at SENAI/SC - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
English, portuguese, pt-br, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
autocomplete10
javascript10
front-end-development10
angular10
react9
html8
typeahead8
css7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/autocomplete
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
🔮 Fast and full-featured autocomplete library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on improving the Autocomplete library's front-end implementation. They fixed a bug in the playground HTML, adding an autoWidth option and removing console logs. The user's changes included updates to Angular and distribution files for the library, indicating a focus on building and maintaining the user interface components and associated build processes.
queryfull-featuredmodalcomboboxaccessible
transfeera/api-doc
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
API to communicate with Transfeera platform
Contributions:46 PRs, 89 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 9 months
communicateapi
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