Summary
Ricardo Sparapan is a Senior Backend Developer with eight years of experience building and migrating monolithic systems to scalable microservices, currently contributing to PicPay’s backend platform. He combines strong PHP and Node.js expertise (Laravel, Lumen, Hyperf with Swoole) with practical knowledge of Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis and multiple databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB), Docker/Kubernetes and AWS. Disciplined about clean architecture, DDD, SOLID and KISS, he drives architecture decisions, documents development processes and champions TDD to improve reliability and team alignment. Based in São Paulo, he brings a rare early-career depth across both full-stack and distributed systems, and maintains active contribution ties with PicPay’s engineering community.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Técnico Industrial "Isaac Portal Roldán"
Banco de dados, Banco de dados at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP