Patrick Tavares
Strategic Sales Engineer
Richardson, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Tavares is a Strategic Sales Engineer with 8+ years focused on cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems, currently driving pre-sales and technical strategy at Chainguard. He combines deep systems engineering and architecture experience from roles at Red Hat, StormForge, and Kubecost to translate complex technical requirements into data-driven, cost-efficient solutions for Fortune 500 customers. Comfortable briefing C-level executives and collaborating with hands-on engineers, he specializes in operationalizing Kubernetes workloads and leveraging ML-driven insights to optimize performance and spend. A former CIO and long-time practitioner of enterprise systems design, he brings rare breadth across product delivery, sales engineering, and customer success. Based in Richardson, Texas, Patrick is known for turning fuzzy operational challenges into measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
JesuitBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (55)
mailchimp10
kubecost10
fedora9
helm9
marketplace9
documentation9
mongodb9
docker8
cart8
software-collections8
api8
centos8
s2i8
rhel8
dockerfile8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
patrick-tavares/nginx-container
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Nginx high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy container images based on Red Hat Software Collections and intended for OpenShift and general usage. Users can choose between Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and CentOS based images.
Contributions:39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
nginxdocker-imageproxyred-hathat
patrick-tavares/s2i-php-container
Jan 2019 - May 2021
PHP container images based on Red Hat Software Collections and intended for OpenShift and general usage, that provide a platform for building and running PHP applications. Users can choose between Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and CentOS based images.
Contributions:25 pushes in 2 years 4 months
docker-imagered-hathatopenshiftdocker
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