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Ricardo Tanaka

@ricardotanaka

Senior Full-Stack Engineer with extensive 10+ years of experience in designing and implementing dynamic web applications

Brazil

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building scalable, secure cloud-native systems with strong CI/CD, observability, mentoring opportunities, and collaborative product teams.

A seasoned Senior Full-Stack Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and scaling high-impact digital products. Proficient in React, Node.js, TypeScript, and Python, I combine strong frontend expertise with backend and cloud engineering skills to deliver secure, scalable, and performance-driven applications.

Throughout his career, I have led the development of SaaS platforms, real-time trading applications, and analytics dashboards, leveraging modern architectures such as microservices, serverless solutions, and containerized systems. I am highly experienced with AWS, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes, as well as database optimization across SQL and NoSQL systems.

Passionate about mentorship, clean code, and DevOps automation, I foster collaborative teams that embrace best practices in TDD, CI/CD, and observability. With a track record of reducing downtime, accelerating deployment cycles, and optimizing system performance, I thrive in agile, fast-paced environments—delivering solutions that balance innovation, scalability, and business impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

DS Solutions Inc.

Jan 2021 - Sep 2025 (4 years 8 months)

Led development of React/Next.js and serverless systems, migrating frontend to TypeScript and integrating AWS Lambda/S3/API Gateway to improve scalability and reduce server costs by ~40%, while reducing bugs by 30%.

React Next.js TypeScript AWS Lambda PostgreSQL Sequelize Redis Docker GitHub Actions

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Beesby

May 2017 - Nov 2020 (3 years 6 months)

Built real-time trading applications with React and Node.js, implemented serverless AWS Lambda/DynamoDB solutions and CI/CD pipelines to reduce latency and accelerate releases while achieving high test coverage.

React Node Redux AWS Lambda DynamoDB Kubernetes Docker Jest CI CD Redis

Web Developer

Tacchi Studios

Jan 2014 - Feb 2017 (3 years 1 month)

Developed 5+ e-commerce and SaaS applications using Vue.js and AngularJS, improved frontend performance and component reuse with Tailwind CSS, reducing development time by ~30%.