Ricardo Torres
Senior Engineering Manager at New10
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Torres is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with over two decades of software experience, currently shaping platform and business capabilities as Senior Engineering Manager at New10 in Amsterdam. He blends deep hands-on technical roots—from building serverless backends and internal Lambda frameworks to architecting cross-team APIs—with people leadership, coaching engineers into strong technical decision-makers. As founder of Chá Online he stays close to product, payments, operations and growth, running a profitable SaaS used by 145k families and driving nearly 60% revenue growth in 2026. Known for simplifying complexity, he has led re-architectures that cut infrastructure costs by ~70% and stabilized systems to reduce incidents. Comfortable at the intersection of product, risk, and architecture, he emphasizes measurable impact, cost awareness, and scalable engineering practices.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at Universidade Salvador
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (177)
hot-reload10
azure-functions10
resumable-upload10
command-line-tool10
serverless10
hosting10
schema10
javascript10
pino10
hapi10
validation10
yarnpkg10
html10
lambda10
js10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
new10com/lru-memoizer
Jan 2019 - Mar 2023
Memoize functions results using an lru-cache.
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 7 tags in 4 years 2 months
lrucachelru-cachememoize
rictorres/koa-ping-healthcheck
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Make koa apps check internal status and health. Inspired by express-ping
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
koa
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