Eli Tavares
Senior Backend Developer With GenAI at Zinkworks
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolEli Tavares is a Senior Backend Developer with over a decade of software experience and a nine-year track record of shipping secure, production-grade systems from Ireland. He specializes in backend Java and Python development, cloud integrations and automation (Docker, Compose, Terraform, Jenkins), and security hardening—having driven OpenSSF-aligned quality improvements and dependency CVE remediations. At Zinkworks he combined hands-on architecture upgrades and observability (Spring Actuator, Java/Spring modernisation) with emerging GenAI work—building responsible AI Agents using Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI and ADK tooling. Eli pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a focus on test automation and measurable code quality (90%+ coverage goals), and he’s presented platform modernisation work at industry forums. Notably, he blends legacy system expertise (telecom and banking APIs) with cutting-edge ML/AI tooling, making him effective at navigating transitions from monoliths to cloud- and AI-enabled services.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone CampusAssociate's degree, Tecnologia em Informática/Software, Associate's degree, Tecnologia em Informática/Software at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (13)
gerrit7
clamp7
admin6
angular-routing6
microsoft-edge6
angular6
oom4
laravel4
api3
agile-development3
agile3
pdp1
drools1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adheli/pogoStatsApp
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
adheli/ionic-test
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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