Elder Moraes
Principal Developer Advocate
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolElder Moraes is a Principal Developer Advocate and Java Champion with over two decades of hands-on experience building backend, cloud-native, and enterprise systems across legal, logistics, and finance domains. He has led developer advocacy at Oracle, Red Hat, and IBM, translating field insights into product direction and practical guidance for senior engineers and CTOs. Elder specializes in turning complex architecture and Java/AI integration challenges into actionable patterns for scalable, secure systems and mentors engineers advancing to staff and principal levels. Based in São Paulo, he co-founded UNIPDS and serves on the board of SouJava, reflecting a deep commitment to the Java community that helped shape his career. Notably, his background spans both low-level enterprise tooling and modern cloud-native practices, enabling him to bridge legacy systems and AI-enabled architectures.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (74)
jakartaee10
dockerfile10
plsql10
jsf10
oracle-linux10
cookbook10
oracle-database10
java10
cdi10
docker10
servlet10
devops10
nosql9
oracle-cloud9
kitematic9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eldermoraes/javaone2016
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
eldermoraes/javaee8oracledevs
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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