Ricardo Antunes is a Software Development Manager based in Cambridge with over a decade of experience designing and delivering Java-based back-end systems and web services for complex, data-intensive platforms. He combines hands-on engineering—Spring, Solr, DB2/MySQL, Lucene—with agile leadership, holding a Scrum Master certification and a track record of coaching teams to adopt Scrum and XP practices. Ricardo has led development of high-throughput bioinformatics and intelligence-analysis services that process tens of millions of entities, bringing practical ML and data-mining experience to production systems. His career spans research-grade projects at EMBL-EBI to enterprise solutions at Nokia, IBM and i2 Group, giving him deep expertise in scalable architecture, testing automation and CI. Notably, he has built distributed annotation and rule-engine tooling that underpinned global protein annotation workflows, reflecting a blend of domain knowledge and engineering rigor. He keeps skills fresh through continuous learning and prefers solving hard back-end problems where performance, correctness and maintainability intersect.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Informatics Engineering, BSc, Informatics Engineering at University of Coimbra
Repository containing the back-end logic for QuickGO
Contributions:93 PRs, 306 pushes, 105 branches in 7 months
golangcsgologicquickgoback-end
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Ricardo Antunes - Software Development Manager at i2 Group