Summary
Joao Chaves is a seasoned solutions architect with over 20 years designing and implementing global enterprise systems focused on big data analytics, systems integration and hybrid cloud. He has practical, hands-on expertise building prescriptive and predictive analytics architectures that span IoT, real-time data streams and microservice-based analytical platforms using technologies like OpenShift, Cloud Pak for Data, Streams, Hadoop, Spark, Docker and Kubernetes. At IBM he led worldwide solution architect teams and partnered with client executives to win and deliver complex, industry-spanning analytics solutions across finance, retail, media and industrial sectors in Latin America and beyond. Known as a trusted solution seller, he translates technical complexity into clear business value and takes ownership across the technical sales lifecycle. Now retired and self-employed from Dahlonega, Georgia, he continues to consult and advise on high-performance cloud and on-prem analytics architectures. An engineer by training who pivoted from mechanical engineering and marketing into data-driven systems, he blends deep technical craft with client-facing commercial acumen.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Marketing, BS, Marketing at Tampa College
BS Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, BS Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Gama Filho
English, Spanish, Portuguese