Richard Natal
Founder, CTO & Tech Advisor at SmartComex
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Natal is a veteran software engineer and technology leader with 25 years of cross-domain experience and a 12-year track record building and leading high-performance teams as founder and CTO. Based in São Paulo, he has repeatedly taken products from concept to production across utilities, finance, IoT and digital marketing, with deep hands-on skills in software architecture, cloud/SaaS and DevOps practices. He blends low-level systems experience (C/C++, Delphi) with modern stacks (C#, Java, Go, Node.js, front-end) and has contributed to notable open-source projects, including connection-level improvements to Oracle's node-oracledb driver. Known for establishing disciplined development processes and pragmatic architectures (MVC/MVVM, N-tier), he excels at evolving legacy systems into maintainable, test-driven platforms. A founder at multiple ventures, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a sustained passion for patterns, AI and making things happen.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
English
Github Skills (8)
oracle-database10
databases10
nodejs10
javascript10
database10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
typescript8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/node-oracledb
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Oracle Database driver for Node.js maintained by Oracle Corporation. Connect your JavaScript and TypeScript applications instantly to Oracle Database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 4 PRs, 99 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Richard made several commits focused on modifications to the `src/njs/src/njsConnection.cpp` file. These changes involved adjustments to connection properties and accessor methods, specifically related to `stmtCacheSize`, `clientId`, `module`, and `action`. Furthermore, the commits include modifications to the `GetValue` function, addressing potential compilation errors, and merging with upstream versions, suggesting a focus on maintaining and updating the connection-related functionalities within the Oracle Database driver. These changes indicate a contribution to the core backend functionality of the project.
driverjavascriptnodejsoracleoracle-database
AngularShowcase/angular2-seed-ng2-highcharts
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
An example showing an integration with Highcharts. http://www.highcharts.com/
Contributions:23 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
highcharts
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