Ricardo Ferreira
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarRicardo Ferreira is a Lead Developer Advocate with over two decades of hands-on experience building high-performance systems, leading DevRel teams, and evangelizing distributed systems, databases, and AI. Currently at Redis, he’s focused on positioning the platform as foundational infrastructure for real-time AI and vector databases while growing a technically credible DevRel organization. His career spans engineering, architecture, and customer-facing roles at Confluent, Elastic, AWS, and Oracle, where he created the widely recognized "Pac-Man" streaming demo and once built a single-node engine handling 100K TPS. A veteran instructor who trained 2,000+ developers early in his career, he pairs storyteller-level content skills with midnight-debugging credibility—frequently translating complex infrastructure into tangible developer success. Raleigh-based and internationally experienced, he blends product influence, open-source contributions, and measurable community growth to drive adoption of cutting-edge data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (26)
kafka10
java10
javas10
go10
demoscene10
redis9
protobuffer9
protobuf9
aws-cloud7
infrastructure7
cloud-infrastructure7
aws7
apache-kafka6
osb6
confluent-cloud6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/demo-scene
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Scripts and samples to support Confluent Demos, Talks, and Blogs. Not all of the examples in this repository are kept up to date. For automated tutorials and QA'd code, see https://github.com/confluentinc/tutorials/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 16 PRs, 206 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo contributed to the "Streaming Pac-Man" and "getting-started-with-ccloud-java" applications within the `demo-scene` repository. They made updates to the Pac-Man game's frontend, Java backend code, and infrastructure files. The user also updated dependencies, refactored code, and integrated the Go and Java applications.
roughkafka-connectconfluentincsyslogelasticsearch
riferrei/bucket-priority-pattern
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 60 commits, 58 pushes in 24 days
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