Richard Brandão
About Richard Brandão
Richard Brandão is a Staff Software Engineer at Delivery Hero, known for his extensive experience in software development, microservices architecture, and DevOps practices.
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Richard Brandão is a Staff Software Engineer currently working at Delivery Hero in the Berlin Area, Germany.
Company
Delivery Hero: At Delivery Hero, Richard manages the Order Gateway Service from the apps perspective and oversees various services including Onboarding, Devices, Authentication, Notification, Dynamic Printing, Menus, and Performance. He has been instrumental in decoupling a large monolithic project into over 10 microservices, supporting the company's growth from 800K to over 5 million orders per day.
Previous Positions
Before joining Delivery Hero, Richard held several roles at notable companies. He worked at M4U as a Senior Software Engineer from 2015 to 2018, contributing to the development of Pre Pay Topup services for Brazil's largest mobile companies: VIVO, TIM, Claro, and Oi. Prior to M4U, he was a Software Engineer at B2W Digital from 2011 to 2015, where he created Whitelabel Stock, Customer, WeddingList, and Control Panel services. His career began at Hostnet Internet where he worked as a Software Engineer from 2010 to 2011.
Education and Expertise
Richard studied Information Technology at Senac RJ, earning a Postgraduate degree in JAVA Software Engineering from 2015 to 2017. He also obtained a degree in System Analysis and Development from Faculdades Integradas Simonsen from 2009 to 2012, and earlier, a Technician of Computer degree from Instituto Tecnológico Simonsen - ITS from 2007 to 2009. His technical skills include proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Ruby, NodeJS, and Python, as well as expertise in using various messaging systems like AWS SQS, AWS SNS, and RabbitMQ. He is also skilled in a comprehensive DevOps stack including Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Docker, Terraform, AWS Lambdas, Prometheus, and Ansible, and has extensive experience with multiple databases including AWS DynamoDB, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, AWS CloudSearch, ElasticSearch, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Key Projects
Richard has been involved in several key projects throughout his career. At B2W Digital, he was responsible for creating Whitelabel Stock, Customer, WeddingList, and Control Panel services. During his tenure at Delivery Hero, he architected and built the Vendor Experience Services, which includes over 10 services that help vendors accept orders, onboard, and reduce the failure rate on the platform.