Ricardo Lopes
Senior Backend Engineer at LI.FI
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Lopes is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Braga, Portugal, with nearly two decades of IT and telecom experience and nine years focused on modern backend and full-stack development. He has led backend teams and architecture work across startups and scale-ups, most recently as Technical Lead at Applied Blockchain and now at LI.FI, bringing deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Docker, AWS, and search systems like Elasticsearch. Ricardo pairs hands-on engineering—designing microservices, email-processing platforms, and CI/CD environments—with product-facing responsibilities as a former CTO and project owner. His background in radio networks and as a global trainer for telecom vendors gives him an unusual systems-thinking perspective when solving backend scalability and reliability challenges. Comfortable both leading teams and self-managing independent projects, he often bridges DevOps, backend, and frontend concerns to ship end-to-end solutions. Colleagues value his practical focus on integration, testing, and evolving platforms that handle complex data flows.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at Universidade de AveiroEscola Secundária Carlos Amarante
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Github Skills (43)
face-detection10
react-native10
authentication10
camera10
jwt10
scanning10
ios9
nuxt9
stateless9
nodejs9
oauth9
react9
auth9
pac9
spid8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rjblopes/shiro-perms
Dec 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 10 months
rjblopes/customrepo
Jul 2022 - Jan 2024
NPM workspaces and typescript references POC
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
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