Daniel Parra
Head Of Engineering at e-Cross
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaniel Parra is an experienced Head of Engineering and systems architect with 25 years in IT and nearly two decades of hands-on Java development, currently leading e-Cross’s engineering efforts to scale LatAm D2C cross-border commerce. He has driven large platform transformations—from SOA to Spring-based microservices—and led multi-cloud, containerized CI/CD deployments for major retailers like Carrefour and Unilever. Comfortable from low-level Linux and application server tuning to UX concerns, he balances technical rigor with business priorities, emphasizing that technology is a means, not an end. He has a track record of building and operating complex e‑commerce platforms, having designed and implemented three full e‑commerce solutions and trained large offshore teams. An active contributor to open-source accessibility tooling, he added meaningful plugin and deployment fixes to the OptiKey project, showing practical full‑stack contributions beyond enterprise work. Based in São Paulo, he pairs technical depth with MBA-informed business insight to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business Management, MBA, Business Management at Fundação Armando Álvares PenteadoGraduation, Computer Engineering, Graduation, Computer Engineering at UFSCar - Alumni
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (13)
accessibility10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
eye-tracking10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
xaml9
plugin-development9
automations8
automation8
windows-forms8
build-automation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OptiKey/OptiKey
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
OptiKey - Full computer control and speech with your eyes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel implemented a new "External Program" function key, enabling users to trigger Windows applications. They added functionality to copy default plugins from the installation folder to the application data folder on the first run. The user also fixed an issue with the plugin engine, ensuring it used the configured plugins directory. Furthermore, they adjusted the timeout value parsing within the HttpCall plugin and added post-build steps to copy standard plugin DLL files to the OptiKey resource directory.
speech-recognitiondisabilitiesc-sharpeye-trackingassistive-technology
dptucunduva/OptiKey
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
OptiKey - Full computer control and speech with your eyes
Contributions:8 PRs, 30 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
eyesspeechspeech-recognition
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