Márcio Dantas is an experienced software leader with 11 years in the industry, currently serving as Chapter Lead at ING Nederland where he blends technical ownership, Agile coaching, and security advocacy as a Purple Security Champion. He has a strong full-stack background from enterprise work in Brazil to developer roles in Europe, and has taught and coordinated software courses at Fontys, reflecting a passion for mentoring and knowledge transfer. Hands-on contributor to open-source—improving the popular brightcove/hot-shots Node.js statsd client with DNS caching, tests, and performance fixes—he pairs pragmatic coding with system reliability. With a Master's in Computer Science and training in interpersonal skills, he brings both technical depth and people-centered leadership to complex delivery environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Campinas
Interpersonal Competence Training, Interpersonal Relationships Skills, Interpersonal Competence Training, Interpersonal Relationships Skills at Dale Carnegie Training
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Federal University of Lavras
Node.js client for statsd, DogStatsD, and Telegraf
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Márcio focused on improving the `hot-shots` library, which is a Node.js client for statsd and DogStatsD. Their work involved implementing DNS caching for UDP transport, allowing for configurable time-to-live settings. They also added unit tests to validate the DNS caching functionality and fixed a timestamp assignment issue. Additionally, the user updated the codebase by including `cacheDnsTtl` options in the client configuration, and refactored the code using `Date.now()` for enhanced performance.
Contributions:4 releases, 29 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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