Summary
Ricardo Duarte is a senior software developer with over 13 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing web systems, particularly strong in Python and full-stack engineering. He has led major migrations—upgrading a 320K+ LOC monolith from Python 2 to 3 and from Django 1.11 to 4—and architected BePretty’s end-to-end e-commerce and delivery integrations. At Petrobras he combined development, automation and teaching, introducing CI/CD, containerization and DevOps practices while mentoring teams on Python, Git and Docker. Comfortable leading both backend and frontend initiatives, he drives better team workflows through improved async communication and enriched task planning. Fluent in Portuguese, proficient in English and with basic Mandarin, he brings practical cross-cultural collaboration from Brazil to regional Latin American platforms.
13 years of coding experience