Ricardo Lopes
Software Engineer at DATACAMP, INC
Portugal, United States
Summary
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SeniorRicardo Lopes is a senior software engineer and tech lead with 14 years of experience designing and operating secure, scalable backend systems across telecom, education, blockchain, and healthtech. He combines hands-on architecture and implementation skills with strong practices in TDD, code quality, and security, having built REST, GraphQL and gRPC APIs and cloud integrations across AWS, GCP and Azure. At Lifebit he led cross-disciplinary teams, shaped roadmaps and acted as interim PM while continuing to design and ship full-service architectures; he now focuses on scale and reliability at DataCamp. He has a track record migrating legacy stacks to stricter, typed systems (JS → TypeScript) and improving performance and security for high-growth products, including crypto payment flows. A mentor and team builder, he routinely runs internal workshops and code reviews to raise engineering standards. Based in Portugal with a Master’s in Informatics Engineering, he brings a pragmatic blend of leadership, security-first thinking and deep backend craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (84)
postgresql10
jsonb10
testing10
javascript10
sql10
sqlite10
mysql10
mariadb10
census10
oracle-db10
microsoft-sql-server10
nodejs10
mssqlserver10
facebook10
orm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rplopes/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 9 months
rplopes/j2ee_ejb
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:86 commits in 1 month
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