Richard Santana
Senior Software Developer at Wonderschool
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRichard Santana is a senior software developer based in São Paulo with over a decade of experience building backend systems, distributed architectures, and scalable APIs across fintech, edtech and e‑commerce. He has driven architecture redesigns and platform initiatives at companies like Creditas, SumUp and ThoughtWorks, often balancing legacy migration with pragmatic delivery approaches such as strangler patterns and feature flags. Comfortable across the full stack, Richard pairs hands‑on Java/Spring and event‑driven systems work with frontend and infra responsibilities, and has improved operational visibility via dashboards and ELK/Grafana setups. As a mentor and technical leader he has introduced CI, automated testing and GraphQL BFFs to accelerate teams and reduce manual operational work. Recent roles show a pattern of short, high-impact engagements and freelance projects focused on migrations, ETL and authentication integrations, highlighting his ability to quickly stabilize and scale systems. He combines practical delivery instincts with an engineer’s curiosity rooted in formal training from USP and IFSP.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Programmer Technician Software Development, Programmer Technician Software Development at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP)B.A. Information Systems Sistemas de Informação, B.A. Information Systems Sistemas de Informação at USP - Universidade de São PauloMaintenance & Electrician for Industry Eletroeletronica, Maintenance & Electrician for Industry Eletroeletronica at Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
loader10
spring-cloud-netflix10
java9
spring9
throttling9
spring-boot9
bucket4j9
netflix8
spring-security7
spring-cloud6
jpa6
spring-data-jpa6
hibernate6
netflix-zuul6
ear6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
richardcsantana/Macbook-ansible
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 2 years 7 months
Creditas/payroll-companies-manager
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
An repository to manage the companies, companies groups and settings to payroll
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 6 months
djangogroupspayrollsettings
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