Summary
Ricardo Maltez is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance C++ systems and full-stack web applications, currently developing back-end solutions for the railway industry at Siemens. He brings six years of specialized work in real-time audio software—shipping plugins and immersive audio engines using modern C++ and JUCE—paired with over a decade as a freelance full-stack developer. Comfortable across the stack, he also manages Linux servers and networking in production, having built e-commerce platforms and CRMs from the ground up. His background blends low-latency, multi-threaded engineering with practical ops skills, which makes him effective at diagnosing performance and deployment issues end-to-end. Based in Leiria, Portugal, he is an avid learner who enjoys tackling new technologies and pairing rigorous engineering with user-focused design. Notably, his experience spans both niche audio innovation and mission-critical industrial systems, a combination that surfaces thoughtful trade-offs between real-time constraints and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Polytechnic of Leiria
English, Portuguese