Danilo Recchia
Summary
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SeniorDanilo Recchia is a senior software engineer based in São Paulo with over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, high-performance distributed systems and microservices. He has led design and implementation of dozens of services using Node.js, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, GIS, data lakes and LLM integrations to drive scalable data pipelines and product adoption. Prior roles include architecting multi-DC, high-availability platforms and mission-critical vehicle-tracking systems where he integrated geospatial PostGIS solutions and telemetry processing. A pragmatic team leader, he builds core developer-facing services and tooling that accelerate delivery while keeping costs and complexity in check. He is an active open-source contributor to the widely used Traccar GPS project, improving backend stability by migrating to HikariCP and adding protocol/UDP support. Comfortable operating across infrastructure, backend, and data domains, he’s open to global opportunities and brings a track record of turning complex requirements into production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
javas10
database-management10
gps-tracking10
hikaricp10
back-end-development10
java10
git8
sql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
traccar/traccar
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Traccar GPS Tracking System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 20 PRs, 55 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Danilo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the back-end infrastructure of the Traccar GPS Tracking System. They replaced the connection pool from c3p0 to HikariCP, improving database connection management. Additionally, the user addressed style issues and incorporated minor changes as requested in a pull request, demonstrating attention to code quality and collaboration. Furthermore, they merged a branch and fixed a merge conflict, which involved adding and modifying database and event handling logic, which is central to the system. Finally, the user added UDP support for the Astra K protocol.
gps-trackingtraccargpsjava
drecchia/traccar
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:54 pushes, 38 branches in 3 months
gpsgps-trackingtraccartracking
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