Ricardo Ferreira

After nearly two decades working with software engineering and solution architecture, in 2018 I decided to earn my living working full-time as a developer advocate. However, unofficially I’ve been blogging, creating demos, and speaking at conferences since 2004. Some of the events I’ve spoken at include JavaOne, JFokus, JNation, QCon, Google Cloud Next, Kafka Summit, Pulsar Summit, and many Big Data conferences. You can find where I’ll speak next here.

Recordings of my talks can be found on my YouTube channel, where you’re welcome to subscribe to get the latest of my work — such as workshops, demos, and tutorials that I create. In fact, you may want to check my GitHub for the code I write to all of this.

If you need to reach out, you can email me at riferrei@riferrei.com or just start a conversation on Telegram.

Twitter: @riferrei

Biographies for publication

Short biography

Ricardo is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, working in the developer relations team for North America. The world of developer relations is his current passion. This is something he had always cherished for; but officially started doing it when he joined open source-based startups like Confluent and Elastic. Having experienced implementing developer relations programs from the ground up granted him an acute sense of what successful strategies are worth pursuing and what mistakes to avoid.

With +20 years of experience, he built an extensive background in distributed systems, messaging, fast data analytics, databases, and observability. He spent the first 10 years of his career in software engineering, where his life was all about programming languages, compilers, debuggers, code efficiency, and development best practices. Then, he spent another 10 years in customer facing roles working with solution architecture in large companies like Red Hat and Oracle.

Full biography

Ricardo is widely known for three things. First, by his uncanny ability to explain complex topics. He craftily breaks them down into bite-sized pieces until anyone can understand. Second, he is great at seeing logic and patterns amidst chaos. He can construct informed decisions from illogical and confusing situations. Finally, he is sharp witted. His ability to think and respond quickly and effectively with a keen sense of humor is often how he gets noticed.