Summary
Rafael Pinto is an experienced technology leader and Director of Development based in Lisbon, with over two decades turning engineering practices into scalable product and platform outcomes. He has spent the last decade-plus building and leading platform, developer experience and CI/CD teams across high-growth and global companies (OLX, Feedzai, Bitpanda) and currently heads development at A-to-Be. Rafael blends hands-on systems and automation roots with executive leadership—helping organizations adopt Agile, DevOps and shared-services platforms while coaching distributed teams. He co-founded a local community platform (Geegify), evidencing entrepreneurial instincts and product-first thinking even when time constraints curtailed the venture. Known for bridging pre-sales, architecture and delivery, he brings a pragmatic focus on developer efficiency and platform reuse to accelerate business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management ITIL practices for Service Management, ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management ITIL practices for Service Management at Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Informatics Technological Course Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Informatics Technological Course Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at Escola Secundária da Cidadela
BSc Informatics and Computer Engineering Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), BSc Informatics and Computer Engineering Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at ISEL - Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German