Ricardo Schalch
Ricardo Schalch

Senior Python Backend Engineer

Actively looking · Member since 25 Sep 2026
Location
Sorocaba, Brazil
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Remote Only / Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a senior Python backend engineer with more than nine years of experience building production systems for companies in the United States and Brazil. I specialize in designing reliable APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and data-intensive backend platforms.

My core expertise includes Python, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. I take ownership across the full service lifecycle, from API design and data modeling through deployment, observability, maintenance, and incident response.

I have delivered measurable product and operational outcomes, including a 20% reduction in response times for a real-time geolocation service, 30% shorter ETL processing windows, and 30% operational-efficiency improvements for a B2B SaaS platform.

I have experience migrating monolithic applications to microservices, building event-driven and streaming data pipelines, integrating payment systems, and developing high-traffic e-commerce and lending products. I also work with PII anonymization, database seeding, encryption at rest, and audit reporting.

I am comfortable collaborating remotely with international teams across time zones. I am based in Sorocaba, Brazil, work through a Brazilian CNPJ or EOR arrangement, and am open to US remote contract opportunities.

Notice period: Immediately

Skills

23 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Experience

Career history

Independent Backend Engineer RBSTech

Shipped Data Maestro, a commercial data platform for test-data generation, PII anonymization, and database seeding, offered through paid subscription and lifetime-license tiers.

Built a REST API with OpenAPI documentation, pagination, and CORS, along with 14 database connectors including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch. Created a Dockerized CLI for CI workflows and implemented referentially consistent PII masking, encryption at rest, audit reports, and streaming generation capable of processing millions of rows with constant memory.

Senior Software Engineer Taller

Built Python microservices for PayPal payment processing, including transaction reconciliation and failure-recovery workflows.

Designed REST APIs for partner integrations, defining API contracts, versioning approaches, and authentication mechanisms for dependable external integrations.

Senior Software Engineer Tarmac.IO

Led a monolith-to-microservices migration using Docker and Kubernetes, supported by GitLab CI/CD. Added Grafana and Sentry observability capabilities to improve deployment reliability and reduce incident-detection time.

Designed a real-time geolocation service for the New York City Fire Department that contributed to a 20% reduction in response times. Built FastAPI and Celery ETL pipelines that reduced processing time by 30%, integrated LLM-driven content generation that increased engagement and retention by 15%, and led backend development for a B2B SaaS platform that improved operational efficiency by 30% and reduced onboarding time by 25%.

Software Engineer Geru

Delivered new online loan products end to end, including data modeling, business rules, Python implementation, and API development. Automated operational workflows to improve internal execution.

Built PostgreSQL metrics dashboards for business stakeholders and helped evolve a single-lender offering into a multi-partner lending platform. Added monitoring practices that surfaced failures before they affected customers.

Software Engineer Magazine Luiza

Contributed to the Open API program, enabling hundreds of marketplace partners to programmatically access products, customer communications, and order capabilities.

Helped build Magalu Entregas, expanding the national logistics network to marketplace sellers within a high-traffic Python e-commerce codebase.

Education

Learning history

EEPSG Brigadeiro Tobias

High School

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