Ricardo Gonçalves
Backend Engineer at Uphold Inc.
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Gonçalves is a backend engineer with 16 years of experience blending industry consulting and research-driven expertise, currently building resilient services at Uphold. He holds a PhD in distributed systems/databases and spent years researching no-SQL databases, optimistic replication and logical clocks—expertise he brings to high-scale backend design. His background includes hands-on consultancy at Erlang Solutions and academic roles across Portuguese universities, giving him a rare mix of production-grade engineering and deep theoretical grounding. Based in Braga, Portugal, he is comfortable translating complex consistency and replication concepts into practical, maintainable systems for finance and distributed applications.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor and Master, Informatics, 16/20, Bachelor and Master, Informatics, 16/20 at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (70)
messaging10
streaming10
rabbitmq10
playback10
riak10
chrome-extension10
stomp9
youtube9
api9
html5-video9
artemis9
server-core9
message-queue9
amqp9
gitbook9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ricardobcl/riak_core
Nov 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
ricardobcl/MerkleDB
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:69 commits, 22 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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