Summary
Ricardo Aguiar is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer based in São Paulo with over a decade of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams across banking, payments and SaaS. He has driven technical delivery in high-stakes financial environments—refactoring credit-card platforms and regulatory reporting systems using Kotlin/Java, Spring, AWS, Spark and Kafka—while also founding and leading product teams for startups. Comfortable switching between hands-on backend work and product leadership, he has shipped mobile and web MVPs, automated sales and logistics systems, and mentored squads to become internal references. His background in education and project management informs a pragmatic coaching style and an emphasis on measurable KPIs and reliable operations. Notably, he helped scale a “bank of restaurants” card program to 100k issued cards, reflecting both technical depth and domain impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Business Administration and Management, General, Project Management, Business Administration and Management, General at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Comunicação, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Comunicação at Universidade Braz Cubas
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo
Técnico em Informática, Informática, Técnico em Informática, Informática at Centro Técnico Suzanense (CETÉS)
Portuguese, English, Spanish