Based in Brazil
Tech Lead & iOS Engineer

Hey, I'm
rafa.

I build and ship iOS apps — and help teams adopt AI tooling that actually works.

17 years building software. 8 years focused on iOS — from fintech to fitness, startups to scale-ups.

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// 7 min

Making My Apps Siri-Native Before Apple Tells Everyone To

Apple is building an agentic OS where Siri reaches into apps. I shipped App Intents for both my iOS apps before WWDC — here's what I learned and why it matters.

ios siri app-intents swift indie-dev
// 5 min

Building Delivery Automations Into a Package Tracker With App Intents

I wired Packybara's delivery detection to Shortcuts event triggers. Now 'when my package arrives, send a text' is a real automation. Here's the technical story.

ios siri app-intents automation indie-dev
// 5 min

Scan Tracking Codes With Your Camera: Building OCR Into a Package Tracker

Brazilian tracking codes are everywhere — printed slips, WhatsApp screenshots, marketplace emails. I built camera-based OCR into Packybara so users never have to type one again.

ios vision ocr swift indie-dev