Summary
Raphael Giron is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems and APIs, currently at PicPay. He has driven high-impact projects like the Internet Banking PJ portal, improving performance with smart caching (cutting backend response times ~50%), modernizing authentication, and strengthening observability with Dynatrace. Earlier roles in health-tech and e-commerce honed his skills in system architecture, database modeling, integrations and release management, and he actively mentors colleagues and shapes onboarding and recruitment. Raphael combines a practical, security-minded engineering approach with a passion for how technology improves everyday life, and he frequently documents and shares operational knowledge (Swagger, runbooks, templates) to accelerate team delivery. Notably, he has translated product needs into measurable business outcomes for hundreds of thousands of B2B customers while keeping developer experience and incident readiness front of mind.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English