Summary
Rafael Oliveira is a Senior Software Engineer based in Irvine with nine years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native web applications and microservices. He has progressed from mobile and frontend roles to leading architecture and delivery at companies including Sony Interactive Entertainment and his own startup, Zesto, where he cut production bugs 28% by optimizing CI/CD. Rafael combines deep Java/Spring Boot and Angular expertise with practical experience in reverse engineering, testing, and distributed systems, and has a track record of reducing costs and improving productivity—e.g., architecting an insurance-canceling API that cut call center costs by 75% and using AWS Glacier to reduce storage costs by 90%. Quick to learn and comfortable leading small teams, he brings an engineer’s rigor from UC Irvine and UFRJ to product-focused outcomes and pragmatic technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Computer Engineering, Exchange Computer Engineering at Lehigh University
Bachelor’s Degree Electronic and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronic and Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
University of California, Irvine
English, Spanish, Portuguese