Ricardo Franco
Software Engineer at Tenchi Security
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRicardo Franco is a seasoned Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native SaaS and security products, currently contributing to Tenchi Security’s serverless platform from Toronto. He blends deep backend expertise in Scala and Java with modern DevOps and cloud skills (AWS, Docker, CI/CD), and has led teams and mentored engineers across fintech and security-focused startups. Ricardo has a strong record of practical open-source contributions—improving Play Framework’s Silhouette auth library and enhancing Docker workflows in sbt-native-packager—demonstrating attention to both security and build/deploy ergonomics. His background spans real-time and high-throughput systems (threat hunting, Kafka, Spark) as well as mobile and game development, reflecting a rare full-stack breadth. He pairs a research-minded curiosity for new technologies with a pragmatic focus on fast MVP delivery and scalable, resilient infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Design of Digital Games, Bachelor's degree, Design of Digital Games at Universidade Cruzeiro do SulUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
authorizations10
docker10
authentication10
sbt10
user-authentication10
dockers10
scala10
authorization10
playframework10
devops10
software-design9
dependency-management9
continuous-integration9
web-token9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mohiva/play-silhouette
Nov 2014 - Mar 2019
Silhouette is an authentication library for Play Framework applications that supports several authentication methods, including OAuth1, OAuth2, OpenID, CAS, 2FA, TOTP, Credentials, Basic Authentication or custom authentication schemes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 68 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the Silhouette authentication library for Play Framework. They added logic operators (NOT, AND, OR) to the authorization mechanism, enhancing the flexibility of access control. Furthermore, the user split the project into two modules, "silhouette" and "silhouette-testkit", which improves the project structure. The commits also updated dependencies, including a migration to Play 2.7 and updates to JWT-related libraries, and added documentation.
schemescredentialscascustom-authenticationtotp
sbt/sbt-native-packager
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
sbt Native Packager
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ricardo's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Docker integration within the sbt-native-packager project. They modified the Docker plugin to include features such as updating the latest tag, adding the `--force-rm` flag to the docker build command, and adding documentation for the `dockerUpdateLatest` key. This indicates a focus on improving the build and deployment processes for Docker images. Additionally, the user updated the base image to use the latest OpenJDK Java 7 JRE.
sbt-native-packagerrpmdockersbt-pluginscala
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