Ricardo Tealdi is a Staff Developer based in Brazil with 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and distributed services. He has driven platform and provisioning rewrites and led cross-functional teams at Locaweb before joining Shopify, where he has focused on high-throughput Ruby services backed by MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka and GraphQL. Comfortable as a hands-on tech lead, he combines people development, code review culture and pragmatic architecture to reduce complexity and speed releases. Ricardo has deep operational experience shipping incremental migrations that keep legacy and new systems running side-by-side, and he authored an instrumentation gem (metrux) to capture production metrics. Known for spreading practices like TDD and continuous integration across teams, he blends engineering craft with coaching to elevate team autonomy. He brings a proven track record of turning complex, stateful systems into maintainable platforms that scale.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc CIS - Bachelor of Computer Information Systems, BSc CIS - Bachelor of Computer Information Systems at Universidade Paulista
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