Ricardo Costa
Staff Software Developer at GoTo
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Costa is a seasoned Staff Software Developer with nearly two decades of experience designing and delivering mission-critical Java EE systems, currently leading platform work at GoTo in Montreal. He combines deep backend expertise—REST/SOAP, EJB, CDI, JPA, JMS—and large-data integrations with front-end chops in HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, often guiding teams as solution architect and tech lead. His background includes managing high-stakes financial systems at the Central Bank of Brazil, where he worked on foreign reserves and SWIFT messaging for portfolios worth hundreds of billions, giving him rare domain expertise in fixed income, Forex and settlement flows. Comfortable in Agile, Scrum and RUP environments, Ricardo has a track record of bridging architecture and hands-on implementation across banking and SaaS contexts. He brings a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to complex integrations and high-throughput systems, and has steadily progressed from web developer to staff engineer and architect roles across Brazil and Canada.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Information Systems at Universidade Católica de Brasília
English, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (13)
redistimeseries8
redis7
data-structure7
timeseries-database7
java-client7
redisearch6
time-series4
docker-image4
redis-server3
docker3
packaging2
redis-client1
golang1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
racc-costa/dockerfiles
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 138 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
racc-costa/javaee-unit-testing
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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