Ricardo V.

I am a Principal software architect with 15+ years designing fault-tolerant systems, translating complex domains into clean, scalable software. Industry Experience - AI Agents & Automation: agentic workflows, retrieval chains, function/tool calling, enterprise search. - FinTech: payment orchestration, ledgering, KYC/KYB, fraud signals, PCI-conscious microservices. - LMS/EdTech: multi-tenant course delivery, proctoring, analytics, content pipelines, SCORM/xAPI. Core Stack & Strengths - Python, Flask, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript, React 18 / Next.js 14 (App Router, Server Components, Suspense, React Query/Zustand), Node, Express, REST/gRPC/WebSockets, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Kafka. - Architecture: TDD, Microservices, Micro frontend, modular monoliths, multi-tenant SaaS, background workers, task queues (Celery, RQ, BullMQ). - OpenSearch/Elastic; vector DBs (PGVector, Pinecone). LLM/RAG systems, retrieval pipelines, tool-using AI agents, prompt orchestration, embedding services, document pipelines. - AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, CloudFront), Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Secret Manager). - DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry. - Shopify (Storefront/Admin GraphQL, Webhooks, OAuth), Google & Meta Ad, Stripe, HubSpot I can start with an architecture review or a scoped pilot. Let’s find the fastest path to value.