Ricardo Piedade
Lead Developer at Miniclip
Penela, Coimbra, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorRicardo Piedade is a Lead Developer with 11 years of experience building high-traffic, high-availability backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Miniclip. He specializes in OO PHP, distributed applications, data and systems integration, and has extensive experience with MySQL, SQL Server, Apache stack components (Solr, Thrift, HTTP Server) and web services. His career includes long-term roles delivering large-scale web services at SAPO and architecting Go, PHP and AWS-based services as a Senior Server Developer, blending legacy .NET experience with modern cloud-native practices. Known for pragmatic engineering, he bridges database-focused ETL work and service-oriented architectures to keep products performant under heavy load. Based in Penela, Portugal, he brings a depth of cross-platform experience—down to older tools like Visual FoxPro—useful for complex migrations and long-lived system maintenance.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (6)
cli5
php4
git3
consul2
circuit2
circuit-breaker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
miniclip/oauth2-apple
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Sign in with Apple Provider for the OAuth 2.0 Client
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 11 months
oauth2-clientsign-inprovidersignoauth-2
askavir/punymvc
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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