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

A software engineer by career, problem solver by heart, and developer relations professional by vocation. With +24 years of experience, Ricardo developed an extensive background in distributed systems, databases, streaming data, and observability. The first 10 years of his career were spent in software engineering, where his focus was on code efficiency, compilers, debuggers, programming languages, and development best practices. Then, Ricardo switched gears, working with Solution Architecture at Oracle. There, he was a member of the “A-Team” — a special team under the product development organization whose charter is to engage in highly complicated projects and complete them successfully. Eventually, he realized that he is great with code and people. This is how Ricardo ended up working with developer relations at Confluent, Elastic, and Amazon Web Services.

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.