Ricardo Branco
Senior Linux System Engineer at Xtremepush
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRicardo Branco is a Senior Linux System Engineer based in London with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure and full-stack systems. He blends deep Linux, AWS and Kubernetes expertise with practical development skills across PHP, Python, Java and JavaScript, routinely optimizing databases (MySQL) and web apps for performance and reliability. Ricardo has led IT and engineering teams at media and SaaS companies, driving client onboarding and bespoke system integrations while retaining a strong operational focus. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved front-end and mapping performance in the popular Traccar GPS project and fixed critical email and scheduler issues in SuiteCRM, demonstrating both UI and back-end fluency. Known for a “I’ll put my hand to anything” ethos, he comfortably crosses the divide between sysadmin and developer to ship pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (18)
extjs10
gps-tracking10
javascript10
gps10
suitecrm10
php10
front-end-development10
mysql9
render9
switch-statement9
databases9
database9
optimization9
querying9
traccar9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
SuiteCRM - Open source CRM for the world
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 37 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor enhancements within the SuiteCRM codebase. Their work included resolving issues related to email functionality, such as IMAP import problems and SMTP account management. They also addressed layout and data type issues in the email module and made improvements to the scheduler and PDF template components. Additionally, the user refactored code, optimized database queries for performance, and made other miscellaneous fixes.
crmsuitecrmphpagplv3accounts
traccar/traccar-web
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Web dashboard for Traccar, the open source GPS tracking platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 20 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the front-end of the Traccar web application. Their work focused on refactoring code using switch statements and optimizing UI elements. The user also fixed formatting issues and improved the structure of report configuration and command dialogs. Additionally, they optimized map rendering logic, demonstrating expertise in the project's core GPS tracking functionality.
gps-trackingtraccargpsjavascriptdashboard
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