About Code Evolve
Ricardo Vergara
Software Modernization Engineer
Code Evolve was founded by Ricardo Vergara, a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years working on production systems at IBM, Geopagos, Adeva, and RedCat Systems.
The engineer behind the work
Code Evolve was founded by Ricardo Vergara — a full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience working on production systems across Argentina, the US, and Europe. He has spent his career inside the kind of codebases most engineers avoid: legacy systems, fragile integrations, and software that works but can't change.
A track record built in production
Ricardo has worked as a senior engineer at IBM Argentina, Geopagos, Adeva, and RedCat Systems — accumulating experience across fintech, enterprise software, and product companies. At every engagement, the focus has been the same: architectural decisions, incremental modernization, and shipping safely to production.
At RedCat Systems, he led the migration to the Laravel framework with a lean team — improving architecture, reducing production bugs, and supporting thousands of daily active users. At Geopagos, he delivered backend features for a white-label payments platform. At Adeva, he worked within an exclusive network of engineers serving global clients remotely.
Before that, two years at EY collaborating on application security assessments and penetration testing — giving him a perspective on production systems that goes beyond the code itself.
How Ricardo works.
"Before touching a line of code, I map what's blocking the system. Most problems in legacy software aren't where people think they are."
His approach is methodical: diagnose first, intervene incrementally, validate every change before the next one begins. No rewrites unless absolutely necessary. No experiments in staging.
He specializes in PHP and Laravel systems — not because they're the only stack worth working with, but because they power a significant portion of the world's production software and are systematically underserved when it comes to modernization expertise.
Based in Antalya. Working globally.
Ricardo is originally from Argentina and currently based in Antalya, Turkey, operating within the Antalya Teknokent technology development zone. Code Evolve works remotely with engineering teams across the US and EU.