Ricardo Domingos Berlin, DE

Technical lead · 19 Years in tech

Engineering systems that scale.

I’m Ricardo Domingos. I lead engineers and build dependable platforms for complex, high-scale products. Production stays predictable and teams can move faster.

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01 / Experience

Built in production. Led in practice.

Technical Lead

Airbnb · HotelTonight

Lead the Infrastructure pod, plan technical goals, and drive cloud, security, and developer productivity initiatives across HotelTonight and Airbnb. Coordinate infrastructure priorities with engineering teams, report progress to management, and guide projects from early technical design through production delivery.

Infrastructure / Distributed systems

Software Engineer

Airbnb · HotelTonight

Improved the performance and operability of connectivity systems used by hotel partners. Refactored legacy inventory updates to support new providers, migrated services to Kafka, and helped retire old infrastructure without downtime.

Connectivity / Distributed systems

Senior Software Engineer

COUP Mobility

Moved the platform to Kubernetes and implemented a continuous delivery pipeline for faster, safer releases. Maintained AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Kops while helping build the next generation of Go and Ruby on Rails services.

Kubernetes / Continuous delivery

Tech Lead & Senior Engineer

Fyber

Led engineers building high-throughput advertising and streaming systems with Scala, Ruby, Kafka, Aerospike, and Spark. Designed technical solutions, mentored team members, managed delivery, and developed reactive applications that processed thousands of events per minute.

Streaming / Advertising systems
Earlier chapters

Co-Founder

Hite

Co-founded a Brazilian web consultancy focused on high-quality product delivery and a healthy environment for developers. Built full-stack web applications, worked directly with clients, and helped recover projects that had fallen behind or encountered technical problems.

Consultancy / Full stack

Team Lead & Developer

IntegraGRP · SuaConta · NZCA

Built and maintained Ruby on Rails products across three Brazilian software companies. As a team lead, translated product goals into sprint plans, clarified stories with product owners, reviewed code, improved development processes, and guided engineers through complex architecture problems.

Ruby on Rails / Product

Network Administrator

Treviso Betim

Administered Linux and Windows servers, managed SQL Server databases, and maintained the company network. Developed internal systems, supported users, and built the operational foundation that led to a career in software engineering and infrastructure.

Systems / Infrastructure
02 / Expertise

Pragmatic tools for serious systems.

The best infrastructure disappears into the background. It is secure, observable, and uneventful, giving engineers space to concentrate on the product.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Golang
  • Scala
  • Kotlin
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • ECS / Fargate
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Vault
03 / Languages

Communicating across teams and cultures.

Portuguese

Native

English

Working language

Professional proficiency

Spanish

Independent user

B2 · Upper intermediate

German

Independent user

B1 · Intermediate