Ricardo Cruz
Advanced Software Engineer at Qive
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Cruz is an advanced software engineer from Rio Grande do Sul with 10 years building scalable web and backend systems, currently leading backend architecture and delivery at Qive. He blends deep PHP/Laravel roots with Go and cloud-native patterns—microservices, event-driven design, Kafka/Google PubSub, CI/CD, observability and container orchestration—to ship resilient, high-throughput APIs and async processing pipelines. Ricardo has a strong track record across payment integrations, ERPs and public-sector systems, routinely performing code reviews, technical refinement and cross-functional collaboration with product and leadership. He holds a Computer Science degree from La Salle and is pursuing an MBA in IT, reflecting a commitment to both technical craft and strategic technology management. Outside work he contributes to open source and values family time and gaming, signaling a pragmatic engineer who balances long-term learning with hands-on delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technician Computer, Technician Computer at IPUCBachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Universidade La SalleMBA Tecnologia da Informação, MBA Tecnologia da Informação at Full Cycle
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
python9
php9
que8
discounts6
nodejs4
css4
exporter4
react4
javascript3
prometheus-exporter3
laravel3
lumen2
prometheus2
rio1
git1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ricardokovalski/helpful-links-library
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
:books::link: Biblioteca de links úteis que todo desenvolvedor deveria possuir.
Contributions:3 PRs, 141 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
desenvolvedorreactbibliotecacssjavascript
ricardokovalski/object-calisthenics
May 2019 - May 2019
:scroll: Repositório com as nove regras do Object Calisthenics.
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
object-calisthenicsphp
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