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Ricardo
Gomes

Engineering software should be as good as the engineers using it.

I'm a civil engineer who became a software engineer. I build the tools my classmates wished they had — starting with the rainwater harvesting system from my published civil engineering capstone.

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What I'm building

Tools & Apps

Free engineering tools anyone can use, plus the private apps I run my family's day-to-day on. Curious about one? Ask for a demo.

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Free · Public

Rainwater Calculator

Size residential rainwater harvesting cisterns to ABNT NBR 15527. Grew out of my published civil engineering capstone on gravity-fed rainwater systems for Maringá, PR.

WaterNBR 15527Civil Engineering
Open tool
Roadmap

More tools on the way

Stormwater calculators, CPT data visualization, structural load tools — informed by conversations with engineers and students about what's actually missing from their day-to-day.

GeotechnicalStructural

Private apps · demo on request

Private

Finance Tracker

Household finances with CSV bank imports, keyword-based auto-categorisation, monthly trends and category breakdowns.

FinanceCloudflare D1Recharts
Private

Net Worth Portfolio

Investments and debt tracked side by side, with a projection chart for where the balance sheet is heading.

FinanceProjections
Private

Strength Training Log

Session logger with routines and a rest timer, plus PRs, progression charts, a consistency heatmap and muscle balance.

HealthData viz
Private

Kids Health

Medication dose log with next-dose timing, inhaler puff counters and growth tracking — shared between both parents.

FamilyHealth
Private

Claude Connector

Remote MCP server with its own OAuth 2.1 authorization server, so Claude can read and update all of the above straight from chat.

MCPOAuth 2.1AI
About

Background

The short version.

I started in civil engineering — a BSc from Unicesumar with a published capstone on gravity-fed rainwater harvesting in Maringá, PR (NBR 15527, Rippl Method, 10 years of INMET data). I followed it up with McGill's Integrated Water Resources Management course (89/100), where my final paper analysed the Pirapo River — the watershed that supplies Maringá — and a Cone Penetration Testing certification on the geotechnical side.

In 2021 I switched into software. I've spent the last four+ years shipping production systems at Getty Images, where I'm now a Senior Software Engineer. The intersection — software for engineers, by an engineer — is where I want to spend the next decade.

  • Senior Software Engineer, Getty Images
    Oct 2024 – Present · 4+ years at Getty
  • BSc Civil Engineering, Unicesumar
    2014 – 2019 · WES-recognized 4-year bachelor's degree
  • Integrated Water Resources Management
    McGill University, 2020 · Final grade 89/100
  • Cone Penetration Testing certification
    Active geotechnical credential
  • Published capstone — rainwater harvesting, Maringá/PR
    UniCesumar RDU, 2018 · NBR 15527 + Rippl Method

Tech I reach for

TypeScriptReact 19TanStack StartCloudflare WorkersTailwind CSSVitestBiomeDomain-Driven Design
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Open to senior engineering roles. Always up for good conversations about civil engineering, water tech, or modern tooling.