Ricardo Mayerhofer
Co-founder & VP Of Engineering at Hopara
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolRicardo Mayerhofer is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as VP of Engineering at Hopara, where he collaborates with luminaries like Michael Stonebraker to build next-generation visualizations for IoT and asset management. With over 10 years of experience leading engineering transformations, he has driven large-scale cloud migrations, microservices architectures, and a serverless, no map-reduce data platform at B2W that emphasized DevDataOps and curated data at scale. He combines hands-on technical depth—spanning C++, NoSQL, AWS serverless services, and open-source tooling—with a strong track record in building teams, training engineers, and aligning product and data strategy. Ricardo has co-authored research with MIT-affiliated academics and helped launch restQL, an open-source microservice query language that gained industry attention. Known for fostering agile practices and pragmatic innovation, he also brings a reflective, people-first leadership style shaped by mentors and a commitment to ethical collaboration. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he balances technical ambition with a focus on durable team culture and measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Ciência da Computação, Bachelor of Computer Science, Ciência da Computação at UERJ
English
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Github Skills (200)
yum10
dashboard10
postgresql10
python10
javascript10
clojure10
metabase10
sql10
maps10
data-visualization10
database10
webgl10
mysql10
analytics10
java10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MachadoLhes/restQL-clojure
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Microservice query language
Contributions:54 commits in 1 year 1 month
querygroovydslquery-languageedn
ograndoptimist/restQL-http
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Microservice query language
Contributions:60 commits in 2 years 4 months
queryquery-languagerestmicroservicesrest-api
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