Paul Tavares
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Tavares is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience specializing in front-end architecture and UX-driven interfaces, currently shaping endpoint security UI within Elastic's Kibana platform. A self-taught engineer who rose to UI Architect at Ericsson, he designed scalable SPA architectures, core UI libraries, and developer tooling that enabled five globally distributed teams to work independently. He pairs hands-on implementation (React, TypeScript, Web Components, Node.js, Webpack) with strong delivery discipline across CI/CD and test-driven practices. Paul’s background in product prototyping and packaging (including NW.js executables for demos) and earlier roles in agile transformation and tooling reveal a rare mix of design sensibility, developer productivity focus, and stakeholder-facing delivery. Based in Durham, NC, he remains active in following front-end trends and contributing to open source ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Applied Science Degree, Telecommunications Management, Associate in Applied Science Degree, Telecommunications Management at DeVry University North
Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (94)
jquery-plugin10
icon-pack10
custom-ui10
svg10
javascript10
jsdoc10
api10
documentation-generator10
drag-and-drop10
sharepoint10
webpack-plugin10
soap10
frontend10
spfx9
jquery9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
purtuga/observables
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
observe things and get notified when those things mutate
Contributions:57 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
mutateobserve
purtuga/esm-webpack-plugin
Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
A webpack plugin to help build/output ESM libraries
Contributions:6 reviews, 41 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 5 months
webpack-plugin
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