Icaro Caldeira is an engineering manager and former staff software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading game engineering teams from São Paulo. He blends hands-on expertise in PHP, Node.js, JavaScript and MySQL with people leadership skills honed across roles from CTO to squad manager for hit titles like Tennis Clash. Comfortable in microservices, containerized CI/CD and real-time systems, he has driven platform stability, recruitment and cross-team alignment at companies such as Wildlife Studios and RankMyApp. An active open-source contributor, he maintained backend features and adaptations for the widely used google-play-scraper, showing a knack for resilient API scraping and evolving third-party integrations. He also holds an MBA in Tech-Driven Leadership and a Computer Science degree, pairing technical depth with strategic product and team management. Colleagues describe him as a developer who still codes for fun—building games in his spare time—while scaling engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Guarulhos
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Icaro primarily focused on maintaining and improving the back-end functionality of the Google Play scraper. Their commits reveal a focus on bug fixes related to specific methods like categories, reviews, and permissions, likely due to changes in the Google Play Store's data structure. They also refactored code, updated documentation, and added new features such as support for new collections and pagination, showing a commitment to the project's stability and feature set. The contributions demonstrate a good understanding of API interactions, data extraction, and adapting to external changes.
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
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