Ricardo Machado
Principal Software Engineer at Studocu
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Machado is a Principal Software Engineer with 17+ years focused on front-end architecture, delivery and performance, currently shaping platform strategy and standards at Studocu. He specializes in contract-driven development, automated architectural governance, and migrations from legacy monoliths to TypeScript and Next.js to measurably improve Core Web Vitals and conversion. Ricardo designs testing pyramids and developer tooling that favor fast, reliable delivery—Vitest, MSW and Playwright are core to his approach—and he builds design systems with accessibility and zero-runtime styling overhead. He combines hands-on TypeScript/React development with cloud-native front-end infrastructure on AWS to make front-end platforms as observable and scalable as backends. Notably, he automated a company Tech Radar from ADRs and Frontmatter metadata, turning decentralized decisions into a transparent architectural roadmap. Based in Almere, Netherlands, he mentors multiple teams while remaining deeply involved in solving the hardest technical bottlenecks.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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English
Github Skills (200)
zero-configuration10
parser10
testing10
text-formatting10
declarative10
website-design10
javascript10
webdriver10
nightwatch10
editor10
input-mask10
developer-tools10
selenium-webdriver10
npm-cli10
electron10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Travix-International/travix-ui-kit
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
[DEPRECATED] Travix UI Components' repository.
Contributions:48 releases, 50 commits, 166 PRs in 10 months
reactui-components
Travix-International/theme-builder
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
[DEPRECATED] Build theme's variables form YAML to consumable format (like JS, JSON or SCSS)
Contributions:7 releases, 41 PRs, 63 pushes in 11 months
to-yamlscssjsonvariablesyaml
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