Summary
Ricardo Boia is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently focused on backend systems at Feedzai after building forecasting and order-processing capabilities at Kevel and FARFETCH. He combines strong Scala and cloud skills—having implemented Postgres on AWS RDS with CDK and operated production stacks with Datadog, Logz.io, and Grafana—with hands-on microservices, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes experience. At FARFETCH he also created an integrative tool linking Jira, Slack, and GitLab to automate team status updates, showing a knack for productivity engineering beyond core services. Based in Porto and pursuing a Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering, he balances academic growth with practical delivery and occasional QA ownership. Notably, his career reflects a pattern of improving observability and developer workflows while shipping reliable backend features.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia, Engenharia Informática e Computação, Engenharia, Engenharia Informática e Computação at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto