Ricardo Souza
Engineering Manager at Functionize
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRicardo Souza is an engineering manager with 14+ years of hands-on software experience and over five years leading multidisciplinary teams to build scalable, event-driven platforms. He blends deep technical fluency in Go, Node.js, C#/.NET, React/TypeScript and AWS/Terraform with a pragmatic focus on product-facing quality and developer experience. Ricardo has led backbone services processing millions of events, built front-end platform tooling and managed integrations with numerous external APIs at scale. He is a coach-first manager who mentors engineers across levels, runs performance programs, and still contributes code when it unblocks the team. Based in Edmonton, he brings both startup founder experience building SaaS products and enterprise-grade discipline from roles at Hootsuite, Delivery Hero and Red Ventures. Outside work he’s a father and avid gamer, which fuels his continuous curiosity for systems design and strategic problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Project Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Project Management at USP - Universidade de São PauloMultimedia Production Technologist Multimedia design interaction and interactivity, Multimedia Production Technologist Multimedia design interaction and interactivity at Centro Universitário Senac
English, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (171)
json-parser10
parser10
json-data10
client-server10
mongoose10
javascript10
encoder10
css-selectors10
entity10
json10
card10
css10
manipulation10
jquery9
swagger-ui9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rcdmk/aspZip
Nov 2012 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
windows-xpwindowsaspunzipclassic-asp
rcdmk/cs-node
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
Example Node.JS RESTful API for user registration and token authentication with Express.JS and MongoDB (mongoose)
Contributions:7 PRs, 25 pushes, 9 branches in 8 years 11 months
express-jsjwt-authenticationmongodbmongoosenodejs
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