Ricardo Fernandes de Gusmão

Solution Architect / Software Engineer

About Me

Solution Architect with 20 years designing systems that solve hard operational problems — vessel scheduling, multimodal transport planning, fleet optimization, real-time IoT analytics. I build the models and I build the production systems around them. Founded HDRN to bring constraint programming and optimization to logistics, ports, and industrial operations across 25+ client engagements. Track record of turning days-long planning processes into minutes-long automated decisions.

Based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Experience

Apr 2014 – Present

Founder & Solutions Architect

HDRN · Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Founded an independent consulting practice delivering architecture, optimization, and intelligent systems across 25+ engagements for clients in logistics, healthcare, government, fleet management, IoT, and GIS sectors.

  • Architected port resource planning system optimizing 15-day rolling schedules across road/rail/maritime—processing 50+ vessels and 1,000+ railcars monthly, handling 2M+ tons of bulk commodities. QA-validated by operations specialists; awaiting upstream railway real-time data integration to go live
  • Built ship unloading optimizer (Pyomo) balancing hull stability and dock throughput—reducing vessel turnaround by 15%
  • Developed steel dispatch optimizer (Z3) for storage allocation and crane scheduling—reducing planning time from days to minutes
  • Created pension litigation optimizer (JaCoP) for retirement benefit calculations with full payment history and monetary correction projections
  • Designed ML-based weather prediction system (PyTorch) using private radar data, achieving 85% accuracy for 6-hour port operation forecasts vs ~50% from public weather services
  • Led 5-year platform modernization for major logistics operator—migrated to Kubernetes, reduced deployment time from weeks to hours, cut infrastructure costs by 40%
  • Built IoT analytics platform processing 10,000+ sensor events/second via Spark Streaming and Akka, with sub-second alerting for 500+ physical security devices
  • Developed GIS/PostGIS spatial systems for water resource grants (analyzing 10,000+ km² watersheds) and rural property monitoring with AR-based inspection
Java Scala Python C# Spring Boot .NET Angular React Node.js OR-Tools Z3 Pyomo PyTorch Spark Cassandra Docker Kubernetes
Jan 2012 – Mar 2014

Principal Architect / Architecture Manager

Algar Tech · Uberlândia, Brazil

Managed the IT architecture practice for a major IT services company. Oversaw engineering standards across multiple development teams and led the architects group. Owned pre-sales technical strategy, hiring and development of architects and senior developers, and hands-on solution design for key enterprise accounts in banking and healthcare.

  • Built the architecture practice from the ground up—hiring architects and senior engineers across 4 delivery units
  • Led pre-sales technical strategy as senior consultant, co-authoring proposals that secured multi-million dollar banking and healthcare contracts
  • Established engineering standards adopted across all development teams, reducing production defects
  • Delivered SSO integration for banking joint venture 2 weeks ahead of deadline, unifying authentication across 5 legacy systems
  • Designed reference architecture for preventive health program serving 50K+ patients
Java JEE JBoss EAP AngularJS Oracle CAS OpenAM
Aug 2008 – Dec 2011

Software Architect

Algar Tech · Uberlândia, Brazil

Designed and led development of enterprise systems for government and telecom clients. Led team of 5-12 developers. Technical instructor for internal and external training programs.

  • Architected telecom CRM + ERP for state utility managing 50K+ circuits—end-to-end operational control from feasibility studies to circuit provisioning, physical/logical inventory, graph-based provisioning across SDH, PDH, Metro-Ethernet, GPON, IP/MPLS
  • Built federated Identity Manager and BPMS Central Server reused across 6 government institution projects, reducing integration time by 60%
  • Developed state debt management system with 100-decimal precision, processing R$2B+ portfolio with 40-year amortization calculations via Drools BRMS
  • Designed BPM workflows managing 3,000+ state-owned properties for acquisition, sale, and adjudication
  • Trained 100+ developers as technical instructor for Java, JBoss, and Hibernate—rated 4.8/5.0 satisfaction
Java JEE JBoss Seam Drools jBPM Oracle JOSSO LDAP
Jun 2006 – Jul 2008

Software Developer

Synos Technologies · Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Progressed from intern to architect-level responsibilities in 2 years, delivering government and telecom systems as a core team member.

  • Built environmental process workflow systems for government clients using jBPM
  • Implemented cable router lifecycle management via SNMP/TFTP for telecom network infrastructure
Java JEE JBoss Seam jBPM Oracle

Skills

Core Expertise

Optimization & Constraint Programming

OR-Tools Z3 Choco Pyomo JaCoP

Core Languages

Java Python TypeScript SQL Scala

Cloud & Infrastructure

Kubernetes Azure AWS Docker

Production Experience

ML & AI

PyTorch scikit-learn LangGraph/LangChain

Data & Streaming

Apache Spark Cassandra PostgreSQL / PostGIS RabbitMQ Tibco EMS

Backend Frameworks

Spring Boot JEE FastAPI Akka Node.js

Familiar

Frontend & Mobile

Angular React React Native / Expo

Additional Languages

C# .NET

Enterprise & Legacy

Oracle JPA/Hibernate Drools jBPM

Projects

Segment
Theme

Flagship Projects

2024–2025

Port Resource Planning and Optimization

Large-scale port optimization for bulk product logistics handling 2M+ tons monthly. Plans across multimodal transport (road, railway, maritime), multiprocess operations (loaders, unloaders, silos, warehouses, belt conveyors), and equipment allocation.

Challenge: Manual planning took 2 days and achieved 60% equipment utilization

Solution: Built OR-Tools-based optimizer with 15-day rolling horizon, weather/tide integration

Result: Plans generated in 15 minutes, 85% projected utilization. QA-validated by operations; awaiting upstream railway real-time data feed to go live

OR-Tools Java Spring Boot AWS Batch Fargate Azure Batch
2021–2025

Logistics Platform Modernization

5-year modernization of production logistics platform serving Brazil's largest port operator. Migrated from legacy Azure App Service to Kubernetes, rebuilt observability stack, optimized database performance.

Challenge: 30-minute deployments, frequent outages, no observability

Solution: Kubernetes migration, Elastic APM, query optimization, CI/CD pipelines

Result: 40% cost reduction, 99.9% uptime, deployments in minutes

C# .NET Kubernetes Docker Elastic APM TIBCO EMS SQL Server
2015–2016

IoT Physical Security Analytics Platform

Real-time event stream analytics for IoT-connected physical security devices. Complex event processing with stateful sliding windows for intelligent alerting.

Challenge: 500+ devices generating 10K+ events/second with no analytics

Solution: Spark Streaming + Akka CEP with Cassandra time-series storage

Result: Sub-second alerting, 99.99% event processing, pattern detection for intrusions

Scala Akka Spark Streaming Cassandra Solr RabbitMQ
2008–2012

Telecom CRM + ERP System

Full telecom operational control system for state utility managing 50K+ circuits across SDH, PDH, Metro-Ethernet, GPON, and IP/MPLS technologies. Weighted Dijkstra for traffic analysis, optimal route calculation, and automatic route suggestions during circuit provisioning.

Challenge: Spreadsheet-based circuit management, manual provisioning taking weeks, no visibility into network capacity

Solution: Graph-modeled network topology with weighted Dijkstra for optimal route suggestions, capacity analysis, and automated provisioning workflows

Result: Provisioning time reduced from weeks to days, optimal route suggestions, full network traffic visibility

Java JBoss Seam jBPM Oracle JBoss EAP Graph Algorithms

Notable Projects

2022–2023

Ship Unloading Optimization

Constraint-based optimization for ship unloading sequences balancing hull stability and dock throughput. Reduced vessel turnaround by 15%.

Pyomo Python .NET Constraint Programming
2020–2021

Steel Products Dispatch Optimization

Storage allocation and crane scheduling optimization for road transport, reducing dispatch planning from days to minutes.

Z3 C# .NET
2014–2015

Pension Litigation Optimization

SAT-based optimization for retirement benefit calculations with full payment history computation and monetary correction projections.

JaCoP Java Oracle
2023–2024

Port Weather Prediction System

ML-based weather prediction using private radar data, achieving 85% accuracy for 6-hour port operation forecasts.

PyTorch scikit-learn FastAPI Python
2026

GIS Land-Use Classification API

ML-based GIS API that identifies and vectorizes land-use topology classes for spatial analytics applications.

PyTorch scikit-learn FastAPI GCP
2018–2019

Water Resource Grant Analysis

GIS system analyzing 10,000+ km² watersheds for water usage grants, from artesian wells to hydroelectric pre-projects.

PostGIS Spring Boot Angular
2025

Rural Property AR Monitoring

Augmented Reality mobile app for rural property self-inspection, matching camera angles to analyze degraded area recovery.

React Native Expo GCP
2010–2011

State Debt Management System

High-precision financial system processing R$2B+ portfolio with 100-decimal calculations and Drools-based dynamic financial rules.

Java Drools Oracle
2023–2024

Road Load/Unload OT System

Modernized operational technology system for vehicle lifecycle control with PLC/OPC-UA integration for scale gates and dock assignment.

C# .NET OPC-UA Eclipse Kura Kubernetes
2018

Recipe Optimization Engine

Z3-based recipe optimization engine with 50+ nutritional constraints for personalized meal planning.

Z3 Choco Spring Boot Angular
2016–2017

Public Healthcare ETL

Multi-source batch ETL integrating 12+ national health system feeds (SUS, SINAN, SIM, SINASC) for municipal healthcare budget management. Handled inconsistent schemas, partial records, and retroactive corrections across millions of monthly events. Built reconciliation logic to match federal disbursements with local service delivery records.

Java Spring Batch PostgreSQL

Additional Projects

2012–2013

Banking SSO Integration

SSO integration for banking joint venture unifying 5 legacy systems, delivered 2 weeks early.

Java CAS JBoss EAP
2009–2010

Government BPMS Platform

Federated Identity Manager and BPMS Central Server reused across 6 government projects.

Java jBPM JOSSO LDAP
2019–2020

Fleet Management Portals

SAP-integrated portals for purchase orders (R$50M+ annually) and debt negotiation.

Angular Node.js SAP PI Azure
2010–2011

State Property Management

BPM workflows managing 3,000+ state-owned properties for acquisition and sale.

Java jBPM Oracle

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Pontifícia Universidade Católica - PUC/MG

2007

Certifications

Sun Certified Java Programmer

Sun Microsystems

February 2009

Sun Certified Business Component Developer

Sun Microsystems

April 2009

Get in Touch

I'm always open to new opportunities and collaborations.