Roger Russel
Staff Engineer at SumUp
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRoger Russel is a Staff Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and leading engineering teams across fintech and e-commerce. He has deep expertise in Golang, distributed systems, and async architectures, having shaped company-wide standards, maintained core libraries, and driven RFC-led patterns at Facily, Dock and SumUp. Roger pairs hands-on coding with architecture leadership—designing optimizations for high-throughput services (search, delivery routing, large-scale messaging) and mentoring teams to adopt inner-source practices. He started as a helpdesk technician and taught himself to program, which informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to problem solving and hiring. Outside work he’s a curious, easy-going technologist and father who values science and family, bringing steady leadership under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos, Master’s Degree Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos at USP - Universidade de São PauloBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
759reputation
48kreached
23answers
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Github Skills (126)
jquery-plugin10
bdd9
testing9
phpunit9
acceptance-testing9
integration-testing9
mustache9
unit-testing9
ico9
codeception9
php9
tinypng9
tdd9
templating9
jasmine9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
roger-russel/beholder-web-client
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:25 releases, 56 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 3 months
monitorlinuxwindowssystem-monitor
roger-russel/mathematical-challenges-for-programmers
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Mathematical Challenges for Programmers it about computational mathematics.
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
mathcomputational-mathematicsmathematicsmathematicalcomputational
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