Ricardo Georgel is a pragmatic Senior Software Developer based in Vancouver with over a decade of experience building backend and full‑stack systems using Node.js, .NET/C#, SQL and NoSQL databases, and mobile frameworks. He has repeatedly driven cost and quality improvements—cutting infrastructure spend by 80%, raising test coverage from 30% to 85%, and introducing Docker and CI/CD pipelines to normalize delivery. Comfortable translating requirements across technical and non‑technical stakeholders, he has modernized monoliths into microservices using Kafka, GraphQL, Redis and AWS. An active contributor to n8n, he added Schema Registry support for Kafka nodes, enabling robust Avro serialization and schema validation in a popular workflow automation platform. He combines hands‑on engineering with a track record of operationalizing reliable, maintainable systems across startups and product teams.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
pós-graduação em Engenharia de Software, Engenharia de Software, pós-graduação em Engenharia de Software, Engenharia de Software at Universidade São Judas Tadeu
Ciência da Computação, Ciência da Computação at Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 15 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the integration of a Schema Registry for the Kafka nodes within the n8n workflow automation platform. Their work involved modifying both the Kafka Trigger and Kafka nodes to incorporate schema validation and data serialization using Apache Avro and Confluent's wire formats. These changes enhance the platform's ability to handle structured data with the Schema Registry, and they are also responsible for fixing typos and adding the option to return headers.
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