Summary
Elias Tandel is a seasoned software engineer and team lead with 15 years of experience building backend systems, distributed crawlers, and content delivery platforms, currently leading engineering at Ninety Percent of Everything. He blends deep Python and Go expertise with practical experience in gRPC, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and scalable databases, while also exploring functional languages like Haskell, Elixir, and Rust. Elias has a strong track record stabilizing and scaling high-traffic microservices, mentoring teams, and driving hiring and product-technical alignment from his time as technical lead at Stone and senior backend roles. A free software enthusiast with a background in web scraping, data-driven pricing systems, and marketplace APIs, he favors secure, test-driven engineering and pragmatic DevOps practices. Based in Valencia, Spain, he pairs academic training in computer engineering and astronomy with a curious, polyglot approach to language and systems design—often experimenting beyond the stack he ships.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Bachelor's degree, Astronomy, Bachelor's degree, Astronomy at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese