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Ricardo Correia

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Ricardo Correia

Over 15 months, this developer delivered robust API and documentation enhancements across VTEX repositories such as vtex/openapi-schemas and vtexdocs/dev-portal-content. They focused on payment integration, schema definition, and developer onboarding, implementing features like tokenized card management, payment provider protocol updates, and improved subscription flows. Using TypeScript, JSON Schema, and React, they clarified API contracts, modernized OpenAPI specifications, and streamlined troubleshooting documentation. Their work included cross-repo coordination, precise bug fixes, and content reorganization to reduce integration errors and support queries. The result was improved API reliability, clearer documentation, and more efficient onboarding for developers and partners working with payment systems.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

81%Features

Repository Contributions

83Total
Bugs
7
Commits
83
Features
30
Lines of code
17,826
Activity Months15

Work History

March 2026

7 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance highlights across two repositories: vtexdocs/dev-portal-content and vtex/openapi-schemas. Focused on enabling secure payments workflows, expanding payment method support, and enhancing developer documentation to reduce integration time and support requests. Key features delivered: - Payments Tokenization Guide and Tokenization Data Structure Update (vtexdocs/dev-portal-content): added a dedicated guide for payments tokenization and updated the JSON data structure to support card tokenization and secure transactions. Commits include 177cd99b99dc5e49edcb84a7a9d53dad11b4179d. - Documentation Improvements for Payment Integration and Troubleshooting (vtexdocs/dev-portal-content): renamed and reorganized payment method docs, improved accessibility, and relocated docs into Troubleshooting sections. Commits include EDU-17638, 60715a86d7aff11fa979acab6d867af0ffc8f937, 596db7907294522bc84f1c355d43b40642db4d7a, 19de174adac00d3dc99d820fbeee0854da761136. - Payment Provider Protocol Enhancements (New Methods + Documentation Update) (vtex/openapi-schemas): expanded available payment methods and broadened regional/type coverage; updated documentation by converting an HTML table to Markdown for readability. Commits include be610ed5539af31e09fe289f4ee98730a7744f49 and 017f4b6c38cec30d0dce1fbb80272b085a50c969. Major bugs fixed: - No explicit critical defects identified in March. Focus remained on feature delivery and documentation reliability rather than defect fixes. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Strengthened secure payments support through tokenization guidance and data structure updates, reducing integration risk and enabling compliant card-token workflows. - Expanded payment method coverage and regional applicability in the provider protocol, empowering broader adoption. - Streamlined developer experience with clearer naming, updated troubleshooting workflows, and Markdown-based documentation for consistency and faster onboarding. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Payment tokenization design, JSON data structure updates, and secure transaction considerations. - Documentation strategy, renaming, reorganization, accessibility improvements, and Troubleshooting-focused structuring. - HTML-to-Markdown conversion for documentation consistency and readability. - Cross-repo coordination and documentation-driven engineering for improved maintainability.

February 2026

7 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary: Delivered targeted API documentation and troubleshooting improvements across two repositories. In vtex/openapi-schemas, delivered Giftcard API relationName documentation enhancements and a new schema identifier approach to clarify unique gift card identifiers and improve API usability. In vtexdocs/dev-portal-content, refreshed and reorganized comprehensive troubleshooting documentation for FastStore API Extensions, GraphQL visibility, Headless CMS access, and localization, including removal of outdated materials and relocation to the localization folder. These changes reduce onboarding time, decrease support queries, and improve API discoverability, troubleshooting workflows, and localization readiness.

January 2026

5 Commits • 2 Features

Jan 1, 2026

In Jan 2026, I delivered targeted API and documentation improvements across two VTEX repos, improving API accuracy, onboarding, and compliance readiness. Key outcomes include providerId clarification for the Card Token Vault API and comprehensive Payment Integration Documentation Enhancements, with editorial fixes to ensure clarity and consistency.

December 2025

16 Commits • 7 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 highlights focus on strengthening payment-related documentation, API clarity, and maintenance across three repositories. Key features delivered include PPP Versioning Documentation to enable safe feature rollouts in payment connector manifests, Tokenized Cards Documentation & Management with token vault (CTV) integration and tokenization workflows, and a corrected Payments Integration Guide URL to ensure reliable access. API documentation improvements were complemented by refunds and card data endpoint clarifications in the OpenAPI schemas, plus a new Gift Card information by ID endpoint. Documentation quality and navigation were enhanced through redirects optimization and cleanup. These efforts reduced onboarding time, mitigated release risk, and improved operational efficiency for developers and partners.

November 2025

14 Commits • 4 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly highlights focusing on business value: improved developer experience and API quality across the platform through documentation improvements, API governance, and developer portal enhancements. Highlights include checkout/payment flow docs, OpenAPI Spectral validation rules, Card Token Vault guidance, and portal navigation—delivering clearer guidance, faster integrations, and reduced support queries.

October 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-10 focused on delivering API schema improvements in vtex/openapi-schemas to improve integration reliability and developer experience. Highlights include a precise cancellation enhancement, OpenAPI schema modernization with endpoint renames and deprecations, and documentation fixes that improve developer onboarding and reliability.

September 2025

4 Commits • 3 Features

Sep 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-09 focusing on dev-portal-content documentation improvements around payments homologation and gateway API, plus release-management work ahead of Black Friday 2025. Delivered clear guidance, API coverage updates, and a formal homologation freeze policy to stabilize the platform during peak traffic.

August 2025

1 Commits

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary for vtex/openapi-schemas: Documentation corrections and improved accuracy for Customer Credit API documentation; ensured endpoints reflect actual API behavior. This work enhances developer onboarding, reduces integration errors, and strengthens API surface visibility.

July 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for repository vtex/openapi-schemas, covering the 2025-07 period with a focus on feature delivery, documentation improvements, and overall impact. No explicit bug fixes were reported for this period; emphasis was on API contract improvements and developer experience through clearer schemas and docs.

June 2025

10 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 – vtexdocs/devportal monthly summary: Delivered two customer-facing features for subscriptions and implemented targeted reliability improvements. Key outcomes include (1) Enhanced Email Validation for Subscriptions: external API validation with asynchronous checks and RapidAPI integration to boost verification accuracy and reduce invalid signups, and (2) Improved Subscription Messaging UX: centralized timeout-based logic to cleanly display success and error states. In addition, multiple formatting and robustness fixes were applied to the email checker app, contributing to a more stable verification flow.

April 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025: Focused on API documentation quality in vtex/openapi-schemas; improved developer experience and reduced support overhead for Payments Gateway by clarifying the Get Transaction Settlement Details endpoint.

March 2025

2 Commits

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on two targeted bug fixes across repos: vtexdocs/devportal and vtex/openapi-schemas. Delivered configuration-level and data-contract improvements that enhance user experience and developer integrations, with clear traceability to commits.

February 2025

1 Commits

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 focused on strengthening payment schema reliability and clarifying retry semantics for delayed payments, specifically concerning PIX transactions. A targeted protocol update clarifies the delayToCancel behavior and tightens the maximum allowed value for PIX, reducing misconfiguration risks and improving retry accuracy for payment processing.

January 2025

1 Commits

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025: Delivered a critical bug fix in the vtex/openapi-schemas Payment Protocol by changing the 'value' field in the JSON schema from integer to number to support decimal monetary amounts for settlements and refunds. The change, committed as 1450e28e30915360132ae824787a1299cbf7921c, improves financial accuracy, reduces settlement discrepancies, and enhances compatibility with payment providers. This work strengthens data integrity in financial transactions and aligns schema with real-world monetary use cases.

December 2024

6 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for vtexdocs/helpcenter focusing on business value, user experience, and contributor efficiency. Delivered cross-page UI standardization for the CopyLinkButton and header layout, plus a clarified documentation workflow to guide PR labeling and release-no usage. These changes enhance shareability, accessibility, and maintainability of the docs portal while reducing contributor onboarding friction and speeding up releases.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness96.4%
Maintainability95.6%
Architecture93.8%
Performance94.2%
AI Usage20.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSJSONJavaScriptMarkdownPythonShellTOMLTypeScriptYAMLtsx

Technical Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI DocumentationAPI IntegrationAPI SpecificationAPI designAPI developmentAPI integrationBackend DevelopmentCLI usageComponent StylingDevOpsDocumentationFront End DevelopmentFront-end Development

Repositories Contributed To

4 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

vtexdocs/dev-portal-content

Sep 2025 Mar 2026
6 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptMarkdownPythonShellJSON

Technical Skills

API IntegrationDocumentationRelease ManagementTechnical WritingAPI integrationdocumentation

vtex/openapi-schemas

Jan 2025 Mar 2026
12 Months active

Languages Used

JSONYAML

Technical Skills

Schema DefinitionAPI SpecificationDocumentationAPI DesignAPI DocumentationSchema Management

vtexdocs/devportal

Mar 2025 Nov 2025
3 Months active

Languages Used

CSSJavaScriptTypeScriptJSON

Technical Skills

API IntegrationFront End DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentReactTypeScriptAPI Development

vtexdocs/helpcenter

Dec 2024 Dec 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

CSSJavaScriptMarkdownTypeScripttsxJSONTOML

Technical Skills

Component StylingDocumentationFront End DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentNext.jsReact