RAFAEL PINCUS

RESUME

Rafael Pincus

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER | iOS, FULL STACK & AI

01 / PROFILE

Profile

Senior Software Engineer with nearly six years at Suncorp. I was promoted in September 2026 after leading mobile delivery on our Duck Creek insurance migration. I have shipped iOS apps, secure authentication and third-party integrations for millions of customers. I also built and launched Pub Thursdays, a full-stack SwiftUI app with a Supabase backend and an AI-assisted deals pipeline. I use AI tools daily to move faster, and I own the architecture, review and testing of what ships.

02 / SUNCORP EXPERIENCE

Suncorp experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    SEP 2026 - PRESENT

  2. Software Engineer

    NOV 2020 - SEP 2026

Suncorp Group, Sydney

  • Led mobile delivery for Suncorp's digital insurer transformation, moving the app onto the Duck Creek backend and through to production release. I set the iOS approach, guided my Android counterpart on direction and answered business-critical questions as they came up. Rollout was controlled through LaunchDarkly.
  • Built a HAR analysis tool to find failing requests in captured network traffic. Defects that used to take days to diagnose now take a couple of hours.
  • Ran defect triage across the migration. I pulled together huddles with teams across the business, got owners assigned and kept track of dependencies so blockers cleared quickly.
  • Rebuilt Suncorp's core iOS authentication flows with the ForgeRock migration team, covering token handling, session state and secure error paths. I worked with security and platform teams through release; login calls to the contact centre fell 25%.
  • Moved legacy UIKit screens towards SwiftUI and MVVM, creating reusable patterns the team could extend safely. Feature delivery is now around 30% faster.
  • Shipped Rewards Platform, EcoScore, Shannons and other self-service features from unclear requirements through rollout. This work contributed to contact-centre call rates falling by more than 50% over five years.
  • Integrated Mastercard, CMT telematics and Adobe Analytics across SDKs and REST APIs. I worked directly with vendors, reviewed API contracts, handled edge cases and stayed involved through production support.
  • Own the mobile release pipeline across Jenkins, Firebase, code signing and App Store submissions. I resolve build and dependency issues so releases land predictably.
03 / SELECTED PRODUCTS

Selected products

Independent product

SwiftUI | Supabase/Postgres | Deno/TypeScript | Gemini API

  • Built and launched Pub Thursdays because my friends and I needed a better way to run our weekly pub night. The SwiftUI app handles rotation, voting, ratings, leaderboards, invites and APNs reminders.
  • Built a catalogue of 500+ Sydney venues and a deals pipeline that checks venue websites, filters likely specials, uses Gemini for structured extraction and sends uncertain results to me for review.
  • Published 1,200+ approved deals across 280 venues at 0.99 average extraction confidence at the September 2026 snapshot. Natural-language search and AI-assisted tagging help people find a pub that fits the night.
  • Ran scheduled Deno/TypeScript pipelines for venue data, deal extraction and cleanup. They have logged 670+ runs, and every failure is recorded for review rather than hidden.
  • Built the iOS app with SwiftUI, MVVM and Clean Architecture, backed by Supabase Auth, Postgres, Realtime, Storage, RLS and RPCs. The product has 100+ migrations and 300+ automated tests.
  • Owned the product end to end: UX, data modelling, implementation, integration testing, App Store release and production support.
04 / EARLIER EXPERIENCE

Earlier experience

IT Salesperson

DEC 2019 - JUN 2024, PART-TIME

JB Hi-Fi, Melbourne

  • Beat sales targets and earned high CSAT by matching each customer's needs and budget to the right setup and explaining the trade-offs clearly.

Technology Consultant

SEP 2019 - JUL 2020

BT Corporate Advisory, Melbourne

  • Mapped the company's systems, workflows and pain points, then turned the findings into a prioritised technical roadmap.
  • Scoped and delivered a full website rebuild from requirements through launch, making the site more accurate and easier to maintain.
  • Replaced ad-hoc outreach with a tracked Mailchimp workflow the team could reuse.
05 / SKILLS

Skills

AI ENGINEERING
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini API, GitHub Copilot, LLM pipeline design, structured extraction, prompt engineering, human-in-the-loop review, rapid prototyping
LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
Swift 6.1, SwiftUI, UIKit, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, SQL, MVVM, Clean Architecture
BACKEND & INFRA
Supabase (Postgres, Auth, RLS, Realtime, Storage, Edge Functions), Deno, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0 / PKCE, APNs, JWT (ECDSA), Inngest, Vercel, Firebase, AWS, CI/CD
TOOLS & PRACTICE
Git / Bitbucket, technical discovery, code review, Jira / Confluence, LaunchDarkly, Jenkins, Xcode Cloud, Figma, Agile / Scrum, App Store Connect
06 / EDUCATION

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

RMIT, Melbourne

FEB 2019 - NOV 2021