Summary
Ricardo Luz is a results-driven engineering leader and founder with over 17 years of experience building scalable web and AI products and currently leads the AI Division at DocuSign. He combines hands-on expertise in React, Node.js and AWS with a strong track record of operational improvements—cutting server usage by 95%, reducing time-to-interactive by 66%, and driving massive user growth through product and platform changes. As founder of Mind-r.ai and Appock, he blends technical leadership with a heartfelt mission to democratize mental health support, building empathetic voice assistants and award-winning social-impact apps. Ricardo is a pragmatic advocate for accessibility and CI/CD best practices, having implemented design systems, Storybook, GitHub Actions pipelines and cross-cloud migrations. He excels at scaling remote, multidisciplinary teams across geographies and turning performance bottlenecks into measurable wins. Outside work he’s an ECMAScript enthusiast and self-described coffee lover who writes and shares engineering insights.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, Bachelor’s Degree Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration at ENIAC College
English, Portuguese