Bio in English:
Ricardo is Principal Developer Advocate 🥑 at Elastic — the company behind the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), where he does community advocacy for North America. With +20 years of experience, he may have learned a thing or two about Distributed Systems, Observability, Streaming Systems, and Databases. Before Elastic, he worked for other vendors such as Confluent, Oracle, Red Hat, and different consulting firms. These days Ricardo spends most of his time making developers fall in love with technology.
While not working, he loves barbecuing in his backyard with his family and friends, where he gets the chance to talk about anything that is not IT-related. He lives in North Carolina, USA, with his wife and son. Follow Ricardo on Twitter: @riferrei
Bio in Portuguese:
O Ricardo é Principal Developer Advocate 🥑 na Elastic — a empresa por trás do Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), onde ele faz advocacia para comunidades para a América do Norte. Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, ele deve ter aprendido uma coisa ou outra sobre Sistemas Distribuídos, Observabilidade, Sistemas de Streaming e Bancos de Dados. Antes da Elastic ele trabalhou para outros fabricantes como Confluent, Oracle, Red Hat, bem como para diferentes empresas de consultoria. Atualmente o Ricardo gasta grande parte do seu tempo fazendo com que desenvolvedores se apaixonem por tecnologia.
Quando não está trabalhando, ele adora fazer churrasco em seu quintal com seus familiares e amigos, onde ele têm a chance de falar sobre qualquer coisa que não seja sobre TI. Ele mora na Carolina do Norte, nos EUA, com sua esposa e filho. Acompanhe o Ricardo no Twitter: @riferrei
Speaking experience
Speaking since 2009 in conferences like JavaOne, JFokus, JEE Conf, JBCN Conf, JNation, JPrime, Java Global Summit, Oracle CodeOne, Google Cloud Next, Microsoft Ignite, QCon, O’Reilly Strata, DevOps Talks, Kafka Summit, In-Memory Computing Summit, Big Data Week, Big Data Conference, InfoShare, Open Source Summit, All Things Open, ApacheCon, DeveloperWeek, GopherCon, and Pulsar Summit.
…and of course: in many meetups around the world 🤗
Certifications and awards
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