Ricardo Gonçalves is a Back End Engineer based in Lisbon with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling server-side systems across startups and growth-stage companies. He progressed from junior roles into senior engineering positions at Leafwell and recently joined Reachdesk, demonstrating steady technical growth and adaptability in product-driven teams. His background spans long tenures at Minuscode and Leafwell, where he focused on delivering reliable backend services and likely mentoring junior engineers as he advanced. Ricardo pairs formal training—a bachelor's and a master's in Computer Engineering and Information Systems—with practical production experience, bridging academic rigour and real-world constraints. Colleagues would describe him as dependable and focused on incremental improvements that reduce operational friction. He brings a pragmatic mindset to backend challenges and a readiness to tackle platform-level responsibilities in distributed web systems.
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