Ricardo Rufino
Senior Software Engineer at Grupo Mateus
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Rufino is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience designing scalable architectures, leading teams, and improving CI/CD and observability across cloud and on-prem environments. He combines hands-on backend development in Java/SpringBoot with front-end work in Angular/React and has practical DevOps expertise using Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD and Jenkins. Ricardo has led product and technical decisions at growing companies, built payment and financial APIs, and implemented hardware-integrated solutions like RFID and TEF. An active contributor to the Arduino IDE project, he has improved its editor, theming and build processes—an example of his attention to developer experience. He also founded and ran CriativaSoft, blending entrepreneurial drive with a strong track record in engineering leadership and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science at AESPIEngineer’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at CEUTMestrado em Gestão de TI, Computer Science, Mestrado em Gestão de TI, Computer Science at UFPE
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (20)
editors10
text-editor10
ide10
ui-design10
editor10
java10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
arduino10
editorjs10
linux8
testing7
maven6
logging6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/Arduino
Apr 2015 - May 2020
Arduino IDE 1.x
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 80 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily focused on enhancing the Arduino IDE's user interface and editor functionalities. Their contributions included integrating a new editor based on RSyntaxTextArea, enabling syntax highlighting with theme preferences, and incorporating code folding features. Furthermore, they introduced an install script for Linux and improved font rendering for better user experience. They also modified the build process and added new tests to support these changes.
arduino-ideidearduino
OpenDevice/opendevice-hardware-libraries
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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