Ricardo Dias
Principal Software Engineer at Percona
Grândola, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Dias is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and contributing to distributed systems and storage software, currently at Percona where he contributes to the Valkey open-source project. He has deep expertise in storage and databases from multi-year roles at SingleStore and SUSE working on Ceph, and blends that with a strong research foundation—holding a PhD in Computer Science and several postdoctoral and academic posts. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has a track record of shipping robust, scalable infrastructure components and mentoring engineering teams. Based in Grândola, Portugal, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on implementation, a combination that surfaces in subtle but impactful contributions to open source storage tooling.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Escola Secundária de CascaisPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Github Skills (12)
key-value-store10
nosql10
redis10
database10
key-value10
publish5
parser5
renderer4
bibtex4
irc3
irc-server3
slack2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rjd15372/bibjs
Jan 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
publishrendererparserpublicationsbibtex
rjd15372/valkey
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
A flexible distributed key-value datastore that supports both caching and beyond caching workloads.
Contributions:117 pushes, 18 branches in 5 months
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