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Rofli de Souza

@roflidesouza

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I’m a CTO and engineering leader building high-performing teams and QA-driven mobile game platforms.

Brazil

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a leadership role where I can drive engineering and QA outcomes for mobile games, mentor teams, and improve delivery quality through strong requirements, observability, and operational excellence—while shaping long-term product and engineering strategy.

I’m a CTO and technology leader with 17 years of experience in technology and 7 years in the gaming industry. I’ve worked across studios like Kokku, Wildlife Studios, INSANE, and Glimpsy, bringing a consistent focus on quality, clarity, and execution.

At Kakunyn, I help set the engineering direction for a company specialized in QA for top mobile games. I’ve also taken on Agile Product Owner responsibilities and recently focused on foundations for better requirements gathering and strategic planning.

In my prior roles, I improved system reliability and operational efficiency by rewriting and rebalancing monitoring and observability workflows, creating a simpler way to create monitors for alerts. These changes decreased more than 50 hours monthly of oncall engineering, and at Wildlife Studios I helped reduce incident response time from 16 minutes to 11 minutes.

I build and mentor teams—coaching early-career professionals through leadership growth and career transitions. I’ve led engineering from Game Engineer to Engineering Manager, converting gameplay systems to support dynamic content (30% vs 10% before) and creating tools that automate content creation, reduce errors, and move delivery from days to minutes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Chief Technology Officer

Current

Kakunyn

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Leads a QA-focused technology organization for mobile game products, establishing engineering direction and Agile delivery practices. Applies Scrum, Kanban, and XP to manage project execution and team workflows.

Agile Project Management Scrum Kanban Engineering Leadership QA Strategy Stakeholder Management Process Improvement Mobile Games

Head of Engineering

Kokku Software Development

Dec 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year)

Set business-unit goals and led engineering planning using strategic planning and product ownership foundations. Coordinated delivery with a focus on improving requirements gathering and engineering execution.

Engineering Leadership Strategic Planning Agile Product Ownership Requirements Gathering Roadmapping Stakeholder Management Cross Functional Collaboration Agile Delivery Team Collaboration Process Alignment

Engineering Manager

Wildlife Studios

Jan 2023 - Nov 2023 (10 months)

Managed a 6-person team of engineers and QAs and partnered with art and product managers. Rewrote monitoring and alerting workflows to reduce incident response time from 16 minutes to 11 minutes and cut 50+ hours per month of on-call engineering effort.

Team Management Incident Management Observability Monitoring Alerting Cross functional Leadership Agile Delivery

Game Engineer

Wildlife Studios

Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 (11 months)

Converted gameplay systems to support dynamic content, increasing it to 30% versus 10% before. Created tooling to automate content creation, reduced build time from days to minutes, and supported VFX integration for new mechanics to improve liveops quality.

And VFX Integration LiveOps Performance Improvement Quality Improvement Agile Development Integration

Lead Game Engineer

INSANE

Apr 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Built and coordinated a team across tech art, programmers, and artists, including coaching and mentoring. Drove Agile development execution by planning critical release dates, maintaining technical documents, and implementing tools/methods to streamline delivery and management.

Team Leadership Coaching and Mentoring Agile Framework Release Management Technical Documentation Stakeholder Management Technical Delivery Process Improvement

Tech Lead

Glimpsy

Jun 2019 - Apr 2020 (10 months)

Led mobile AR development tooling and coordinated teams of artists and programmers, aligning expectations and managing deliverables. Developed processes and documentation, guided employees technically, and used tooling such as Unity3D, Git, Jira, and Excel.

Unity3D Blender Git Jira Documentation Process Development Team Leadership Photoshop

Game Developer

Kwest

Feb 2019 - Aug 2019 (6 months)

Developed and assisted on a mobile AR game project, supporting feature development for the application.

Augmented Reality Mobile Game Development Game Development Debugging Collaboration Iterative Development Technical Implementation

Lead Developer

Indice.in

Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 (1 year)

Delivered web and standalone desktop projects by designing client-side and server-side architecture and implementing APIs for consumption. Managed internal and external projects and used ReactJS, Firebase, JavaScript, HTML5, Sass, MongoDB, and MySQL.