Ricardo Campos
Senior Engineering Manager - Cloud Engineering at Compare the Market
Grendon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Campos is a Senior Engineering Manager specialising in cloud engineering with 12 years of professional software experience and a steady internal progression at Compare the Market from hands-on engineering to strategic leadership. He combines enterprise architecture and principal-engineer instincts to drive technical and cultural transformation across platforms, focusing on reliable, scalable cloud-native systems. Ricardo pairs practical backend development skills—evidenced by contributions to an open-source EverQuest emulator fixing concurrency and DB issues—with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams. Based in Grendon, UK, he brings an uncommon blend of formal software engineering postgraduate training and long-term product-focused delivery across betting, mapping and comparison-market domains.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Senior Leadership Apprenticeship, Postgraduate Degree, Senior Leadership Apprenticeship at Anglia Ruskin UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Life Sciences with History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Bachelor’s Degree, Life Sciences with History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of ManchesterMaster’s Degree, Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University
Github Skills (15)
databases10
administration10
c-language10
database-administration10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
gameserver10
emulation10
cplus10
database-design10
device-emulation10
mysql10
server10
database10
lua4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EQEmu/EQEmu
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
A Fan-Driven Server Platform Preserving the Legacy of a Legendary MMORPG for Over Two Decades and Going
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the EverQuest server emulator. They addressed a critical issue where corpses remained locked after looting failures, ensuring corpses are unlocked for others. Furthermore, the user made database-related changes, including merging code from the origin/master branch and altering how start zones are handled, replacing the old method with a new one based on rule values in the `rule_values` table. These changes involved the `zone/corpse.cpp`, `common/database.cpp`, `world/worlddb.cpp`, and `world/client.cpp` files.
luaemulatortrinitycoremysqlazerothcore
RicardoCampos/useful-scripts
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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